The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows
Bernard Berenson
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entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
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there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
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ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
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first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
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SAINT BERNARD Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell al... SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig... SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ... SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. SAINT BERNARD What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contem... BERNARD LEVIN Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally ... BERNARD LEVIN The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its likin... BERNARD BECKETT People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par... BERNARD WILLIAMS The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ... BERNARD WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports. BERNARD WILLIAMS Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was clas... BERNARD WILLIAMS Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm. BERNARD WILLIAMS I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o... BERNARD WILLIAMS People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by ... BERNARD WILLIAMS A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't. BERNARD WILLIAMS If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t... BERNARD WILLIAMS What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. BERNARD WILLIAMS A half-truth is usually less than half of that. BERNARD WILLIAMS 'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality. BERNARD WILLIAMS The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. BERNARD WILLIAMS An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. BERNARD WILLIAMS Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair. BERNARD WILLIAMS The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,... BERNARD WILLIAMS Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f... BERNARD WILLIAMS We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. BERNARD WILLIAMS Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin... BERNARD WILLIAMS Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall... BERNARD EDWARDS Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t... SAINT BERNARD