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“I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.”

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Philip Guston was an influential American painter known for his unique style and contributions to modern art. His works combined elements of Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, showcasing profound emotions and complex themes. more

“The peace conference must not adjourn without the establishment of some ordered system of international government, backed by power enough to give authority to its decrees.Unless a league something like this results at our peace conference, we shall merely drop back into armed hostility and international anarchy. The war will have been fought in vain.”

Giving Has Beens War Enough Government Peace Results Authority Relation International Vain League Anarchy Establishment Conferences Hostility International Relations Decree

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had outrun his intellectual and spiritual power. ...Throughout the Second World War this terrible problem hung in the back of my mind. As I write these words the problem and the danger are as threatening as ever. We hope our nation will survive, but in its effort to survive will it transform itself intellectually and spiritually into the image of the thing against which we fought?”

“It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.”

Men Hard Social Acceptance Men And Women England Permanent Lowest

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“...expatriated Americans, even Henry James himself, have always seemed to me somewhat anchorless, rudderless, drifting before thewind.”

Wind Drifting

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.”

Ifs Men Should Might Young Sex Achieve Danger Essentials Highest Capable Standards Males Sexism Judged Scholar Good Work Young Women Colleagues Advancement Best Work Chemist

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“...at this stage in the advancement of women the best policy for them is not to talk much about the abstract principles of women'srights but to do good work in any job they get, better work if possible than their male colleagues.”

Ifs Jobs Principles Stage Policy Males Get Better Abstract Womens Rights Good Work Colleagues Advancement

Author:Virginia Gildersleeve

“I'm not a nest-egg person.”

Persons Eggs Nests

Author:Dwight Howard

“It was never in my heart to slight any man, but only that man should be kept in his place and not sit in the room of God.”

Men Should Heart Rooms My Heart

Author:Anne Hutchinson

“Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.”

Knows States Whole Gods Will Ruins Posterity Heed

Author:Anne Hutchinson

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