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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Mexican Proverb

To refuse graciously is to confer a favor.

Publilius Syrus

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Jan Christian Smuts Quotes

About Jan Christian Smuts

1870-1950, South African General, Statesman, and Prime Minister

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