The advantage of the ...

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.
 Paul Valery

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
 Naomi Oreskes
You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
 Will Smith
The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the power of application and labor, wins in the end.
 William Howard Taft
I think society had to grow up to the mentality of Peter Norman.
 John Carlos

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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
 Paul Valery
No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.
 Paul Valery
In the eyes of those lovers of perfection, a work is never finished - a word that for them has no sense - but abandoned; and this abandonment, whether to the flames or to the public (and which is the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver) is a kind of an accident to them, like the breaking off of a reflection, which fatigue, irritation, or something similar has made worthless.
 Paul Valery
Poems are never finished - just abandoned
 Paul Valery
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
 Paul Valery