One begins to realize that ...

One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The stone itself becomes an organic substance, and one can feel it being transformed as one moment in its life succeeds another.
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 Georges Clemenceau

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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
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 Georges Clemenceau
Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
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 Georges Clemenceau
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
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 Georges Clemenceau
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
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 Georges Clemenceau
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
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 Georges Clemenceau