"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.“

-Salvador Dali

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"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."

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"Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die."

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"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

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"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob."

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