"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little."
-Samuel Johnson
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"To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Power is not sufficient evidence of truth."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test."
-Samuel Johnson
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"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."
-Samuel Johnson
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"Wushu is a move in Chinese, a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art."
-Jet Li
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"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
-Ludwig Erhard
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"In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event."
-Theodore Bikel
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"My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way."
-Robert Carlyle
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"Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis."
-Karl Kraus
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"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."
-Ben Okri
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