"a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own."

-- Margaret Deland

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“It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.”

Source : "Schilder Bram van Velde in Dordrecht", by Paul Groot, newspaper "NRC Handelsblad", 1979.
“Orangutans teach us that looks are not everything-but warned near it.”
“I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.”

Source : "Guest: Obama Advisor David Axelrod". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 2, 2012.
“Here's why this matters: Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.”
“One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.”
“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”
“In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.”
“You want ME in the ring? Now I know you've been drinking”

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