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Quote of the Day November 15, 2026

“I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.”

Frank Luntz · Communication

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Theodor Adorno

Every work of art is an uncommitted crime.

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E. M. Forster

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

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Temple Grandin

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

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Simone Weil

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

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Alexander Pope

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.

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Simone de Beauvoir

Art is an attempt to integrate evil.

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Thomas Fuller

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

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Thomas Fuller

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

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