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~He that wrestles with us
strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our
helper.
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-Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France, In a Letter Intended to Have Been
Sent to a Gentleman in Paris, 1790
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For every artist who has something to say but
the inability to say it well, there are two who could say something well if
they had something to say.
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-Paul C. Mills
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There are painters who transform the sun into
a yellow spot, but there are others, who with the help of their art and their
intelligence, transform a yellow spot into a sun.
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-Pablo Picasso
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*[I]t is beyond the power
of human nature to achieve skill without any experience . . .
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(hoti hê anthrôpinê phusis asthenestera ê labein technên hôn an êi
apeiros. . .)
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-The character Socrates, in Plato's
Theaetetus, 360 BC
149c
F.M. Cornford, trans., 1957
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