"Going back to that idea that painting sits still and that we give ourselves over to it over time. There's a difference between living with - imagine if this were sitting in your living room for 15 years. You'd probably understand the contours of it."

-- Kehinde Wiley

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“I consider myself a patriot, but not for the traditional reasons. I'm just really passionate about apple pie.”
“Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.”
“Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking.”
“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.”

Source : Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.131, Crux Publishing Ltd
“When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
“We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.”
“I'm thinking of switching banks, and my friend said, 'Well, what's wrong with Citibank?' Well, they can't spell 'city.' I hope their math is better than their English is.”
“People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It's not very helpful. What's more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com

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