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Resonant Thoughts

"City Journal Articles by Theodore Dalrymple"

— Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

Psychology1946

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"I do not see why so much importance should be attached to the idea of 'research' in painting."

— Pablo Picasso

Art1881–1973

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"Porphyry is right to suggest that Plotinus' teaching "voice" has about it something particular , speaking as if inspired and from his own experience rather than out of the tradition. The rhetorical ch…"

— Mark D. Jordan

Religion1953

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"Citizens of a modern society need more than that ordinary "common sense" which was defined by Stuart Chase as that which tells you that the world is flat."

— Stuart Chase

Economics1839–1897

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