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In 80% of Socrates' dialogues there was no constructive outcome. He saw his role as simply pointing out what was "wrong.


Edward de Bono

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CHAZ BONO I have always said that life is more important than politics.
JOSE BONO It is good to evoke what happened, and to conjure up what might, happen again. Those who come togeth...
JOSE BONO It could have been an accident or it could have been an attack from the exterior,
JOSE BONO It could have been an accident or an attack. The causes have not been fully clarified.
JOSE BONO These missions must remain separate with separate chains of command. The only thing they have in com...
JOSE BONO The person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER