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“I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.”

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Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is a renowned American sculptor, known for his large-scale public art installations. His works are inspired by everyday objects, reimagined and magnified to create both familiar and unfamiliar visual experiences. more

“Appreciation is not an otherworldly or good treat which we may take or push away as per the minute's impulses, and in either case without material outcomes. Appreciation is the very bread and meat of profound and good wellbeing, separately and all things considered. What was the seed of deterioration that tainted the antiquated's heart world past the purpose of perfect remedy...? What was it however selfishness?”

World Heart May Past Purpose Perfect Cases Minutes Materials All Things Treats Profound Appreciation Seeds Bread Selfishness Impulse Meat Outcomes Remedy Wellbeing Tainted Deterioration

Author:Noel 'Razor' Smith

“The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.”

Hands Lying Our Future Your Future

Author:Nido R Qubein

“My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.”

Ifs World Used Mother Father Parent Rage Used To Be Insecurity Jealous Comes And Goes Protectiveness Points In Life Get Jealous

Author:Felicity Kendal

“Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.”

Different Play Hands School Girl Found Father Language Decision Class Rich Taken Needed Moved Moved On Shakespeare's Plays

Author:Felicity Kendal

“I think very few people do find a relationship where, every moment of every day, everything they do comes together. That's why, in a nutshell, everyone loved Barbara in 'The Good Life.' She was the perfect partner. It was a formula. She wasn't glamorous. She wasn't clever. But she was a good partner. That's too easy, too perfect.”

People Thinking Moments Together Easy Perfect Partners Clever Formulas Good Life Glamorous Barbara Perfect Partner

Author:Felicity Kendal

“The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our lives. If it were endless, if it were on tap, love wouldn't hit us the way it does.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Love Is Our Lives Importance Profound Endless

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'”

Said Bigs Life Is College Asking Starting Philosopher Greek Good Life Worth Living Starting Point Big Questions Greek Philosopher Life Is Not Worth Living Unexamined Life

Author:Arianna Huffington

“I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'”

Ifs Has Beens Night Guy Hours Sleep Interesting Five Four Dinner

Author:Arianna Huffington

“1 is not prime, by definition. 2 is an unnatural prime, 4 is an unnatural prime, and 6 is an unnatural prime. All other natural primes cannot be unnatural primes.”

Natural Definitions Prime Unnatural

Author:Aristotle

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