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People are self-centeredto a nauseous degree.They will keep on about themselveswhile I'm explaining me.


Piet Hein

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it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas,...
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Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
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for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particl...
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by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be ...
PIET HEIN SMALL THINGS
& GREAT

He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the...
PIET HEIN WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK

Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN Living is
a thing you do
now or never -
which do you?
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More Piet Hein

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
PIET HEIN The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and l...
PIET HEIN The human spirit sublimates
the impulses it thwarts:
a healthy sex life mitigates
the lust ...
PIET HEIN Put up in a place
where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T

W...
PIET HEIN A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
PIET HEIN Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by fighting back.
PIET HEIN After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s the...
PIET HEIN Here lies, extinguished in his prime,/ a victim of modernity:/ but yesterday he hadn't time--/ and n...
PIET HEIN The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be missed/ if it didn't exist.
PIET HEIN The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err again but less and less and ...
PIET HEIN THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY

There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eat...
PIET HEIN We ought to live each day as though
it were our last day here below.
But if I did, alas,...
PIET HEIN Knowing what
Thou knowest not
Is in a sense
Omniscience.
PIET HEIN The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other...
PIET HEIN The road to wisdom? Well, it’s plain / And simple to express: / Err / and err / and err again, / b...
PIET HEIN Living isa thing you donow or never -which do you?
PIET HEIN If no thought your mind does visit, Make your speech not too explicit
PIET HEIN To make a name for learning/ when other roads are barred,/ take something very easy/ and make it ver...
PIET HEIN Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particl...
PIET HEIN It ought to be plain how little you gain
by getting excited and vexed.
You'll always be ...
PIET HEIN SMALL THINGS
& GREAT

He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the...
PIET HEIN WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK

Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN Living is
a thing you do
now or never -
which do you?
PIET HEIN Shepherds use religion to fight wars, sheep fight over religion.
PIET HEIN WOKKE We believe a part of the healing process is the being touched part of this and helping people relax ...
JANICE HEIN Clearly, the more everybody understands the components of the budget and how they interrelate, the b...
MIKE HEIN You don't have to get on a treadmill to relieve stress. There's a lot of research showing that laugh...
JANICE HEIN I think all things are possible, especially in that time frame. Do I think the public would support ...
MIKE HEIN The biggest thing is the peacefulness of the neighbors and the camaraderie around the lake.
BILL HEIN I said they're out of their minds.
BILL HEIN We still toss them today.
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MIKE HEIN I have two aestheticians rooms where I do all the skin-rejuvenation work. I have three massage rooms...
JANICE HEIN The normal sanction - if you can prove that someone has tested positive - is a two-year ban, but wha...
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HEIN VERBRUGGEN We're going to be looking further into this affair,
HEIN VERBRUGGEN It's not wise to condemn someone who hasn't tested positive in a legal sense.
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HEIN VERBRUGGEN I think it's clear I don't like the man.
HEIN VERBRUGGEN It is wonderful to see how the Olympic spirit is being spread beyond Beijing into other areas in Chi...
HEIN VERBRUGGEN We have approved them. That means we like them, otherwise we wouldn't have done that.
HEIN VERBRUGGEN It's not nasty, it's not trashy, it's just fun and if you take it in, the spirit it's intended, it's...
LISA HEIN With an artist it's like you're walking out into a room with your underwear on and everyone's pointi...
JEFF HEIN That shocked a lot of people, including myself, to beat a team of that caliber right out of the gate...
JEFF HEIN We were lucky. The kids bought in to the changes early on.
JEFF HEIN We don't want to have our children, or even us, exposed to this indecency.
MICHAEL HEIN Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which i...
PIET MONDRIAN The meaning of words has become so blurred by past usage that 'abstract' is identified with ...
PIET MONDRIAN I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but e...
PIET MONDRIAN Many appreciate in my former work just what I did not want to express, but which was produced by an ...
PIET MONDRIAN The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
PIET MONDRIAN Experience was my only teacher; I knew little of the modern art movement. When I first saw the works...
PIET MONDRIAN Everything is expressed through relationship. Colour can exist only through other colours, dimension...
PIET MONDRIAN The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals...
PIET MONDRIAN It has become progressively clearer that the plastic expression of true reality is attained through ...
PIET MONDRIAN The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and sp...
PIET MONDRIAN We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympa...
PIET MONDRIAN All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal ...
PIET MONDRIAN Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of traged...
PIET MONDRIAN Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative.
PIET MONDRIAN We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express...
PIET MONDRIAN The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
PIET MONDRIAN Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from t...
PIET MONDRIAN Let us note that art - even on an abstract level - has never been confined to 'idea'; art ha...
PIET MONDRIAN Non-figurative art is created by establishing a dynamic rhythm of determinate mutual relations which...
PIET MONDRIAN We're not working as efficiently and effectively as we could be. Without adequate staff, appliances ...
PIET SMITH I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arri...
PIET MONDRIAN One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this ...
PIET MONDRIAN If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pic...
PIET MONDRIAN I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of ex...
PIET MONDRIAN I think that the destructive element is too much neglected in art.
PIET MONDRIAN The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

Piet Mondrian
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PIET MONDRIAN The natural does not have to be a specific representation. I am now working on a thing which is a re...
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PIET MONDRIAN Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivi...
PIET MONDRIAN It's not under control yet.
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BILL HEIN JR I said they're out of their minds.
BILL HEIN JR We still toss them today.
BILL HEIN JR