"I'm very tolerant of other art and other artists. But what I truly appreciate, what I truly admire in contemporary art, is work that takes on more than it can sometimes handle - art that gets in over its head."

-- Philip Taaffe

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“[Sandy] Kress says [Betsy] DeVos's record on school choice in Michigan sealed the deal.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“Our own genomes carry the story of evolution, written in DNA, the language of molecular genetics, and the narrative is unmistakable.”

Source : "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.
“Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.”
“The burden borne by mankind is a heavy and a crushing thing. The word Jesus used means a load carried or toil borne to the point of exhaustion. Rest is simply release from that burden. It is not something we do, it is what comes to us when we cease to do. His own meekness, that is the rest.”
“This philosophy of hate, of religious and racial intolerance, with its passionate urge toward war, is loose in the world. It is the enemy of democracy; it is the enemy of all the fruitful and spiritual sides of life. It is our responsibility, as individuals and organizations, to resist this.”
“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”

Source : Lisa Alther (2010). “Other Women”, p.228, Open Road Media
“The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.”
“I do not believe in sitting on a problem. Because the longer you sit on that thing, the longer it'll irritate you. If you're keeping it to yourself, there's nothing the guy you're mad at can do to fix it, either, because you haven't told him why you're mad.”

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