Famous quotes containing the words modern, performance and/or practice:
“My idea is that the world outsidethe so-called modern worldcan only pervert and degrade the conceptions of the primitive instinct of art and feeling, and that our only chance is to accept the limited number of survivorsthe one- in-a-thousand of born artists and poetsand to intensify the energy of feeling within that radiant centre.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
“Still be kind,
And eke out our performance with your mind.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (18041881)
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