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  • NotSurprised
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    The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual. -- Jacques Bainville
  • Jovialation
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    "The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
  • NotSurprised
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    When a man is young he is so wild he is insufferable. When he is old he plays the saint and becomes insufferable again. -- Nikolai Gogol
  • NotSurprised
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    Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now. -- Evelyn Waugh
  • NotSurprised
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    Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. -- Lionel Trilling
  • NotSurprised
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    Youth is a period of missed opportunities. -- Cyril Connolly
  • NotSurprised
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    In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. -- Beverly Sills
  • NotSurprised
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    Be thou dilligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. -- Proverbs 27:23
  • NotSurprised
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    I know collectors with 40,000 bottles who if you poured them a glass of Gallo Hearty Burgundy wouldn't know the difference. -- Robert M. Parker JR.
  • NotSurprised
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    Collectors would purchase work about people whom they would probably never have a relationship with, but are safe for them to admire from a distance. -- Andres Serrano
  • NotSurprised
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    I was tired of painting. So my collectors bought paintings and locked them in bank vaults. The stained glass windows allowed me to make public art. -- Marcelle Ferron
  • NotSurprised
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    Paperbacks blink in and out of print like fireflies.They also, as older collectors have ruefully discovered, fade and fall apart even more rapidly than their owners. -- Paul Gray
  • NotSurprised
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    I do not look with favor on the collecting of first editions and autographs, but it is a vice which is sometimes found in otherwise virtuous persons. -- A.E. Housman
  • NotSurprised
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    He was the world's only armless sculptor. He put the chisel in his mouth and his wife hit him on the back of the head with a mallet. -- Fred Allen
  • NotSurprised
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    All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women. -- Thomas Beecham
  • NotSurprised
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    You begin with a group of objects and then build a room like a glove to hold them. -- Gaillard Ravenel
  • NotSurprised
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    You know it's not a good wax museum when there are wicks coming out of people's heads. -- Rick Reynolds
  • NotSurprised
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    I'd asked 10 or 15 people for suggestions. Finally one lady friend asked the right question: "What do you love most?" That's how I started painting money. -- Andy Warhol
  • NotSurprised
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    Art is about making something out of nothing and selling it. -- Frank Zappa
  • NotSurprised
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    You can't lock up art in a vault and keep it frozen for posterity. Then the artist is betrayed, history is betrayed. -- Walter Persegati
  • NotSurprised
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    If Venice sinks, my collection should be preserved somewhere in the vicinity of Venice. -- Peggy Guggenheim
  • NotSurprised
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    The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. -- Robert Motherwell
  • NotSurprised
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    Certainly we the Muse`e d'Orsay have bad paintings. We have only the "greatest" bad paintings. -- Francoise Cachin
  • NotSurprised
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    Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. -- Psalms 101:6
  • NotSurprised
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    Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. -- Mary Mccarthy
  • NotSurprised
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    Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it. -- Joseph Schumpeter
  • NotSurprised
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    It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say , tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons and pediatric nurses. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
  • NotSurprised
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    The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. -- Eugene Mccarthy
  • NotSurprised
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    Poor fellow, he suffers from files. -- Aneurin Bevan
  • NotSurprised
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    Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
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