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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
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No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
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