"Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade."

-- John French Sloan

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“It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.”

Source : Opening address, Pacific Vision festival, Auckland, New Zealand, July 26, 1999.
“I think that we put too much weight on who the president is.”
“Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.”
“The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.”
“I wonder that we Americans love our country at all, it having no limits and no oneness; and when you try to make it a matter of the heart, everything falls away except one's native State; -neither can you seize hold of that, unless you tear it out of the Union, bleeding and quivering.”
“My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace.”

Source : "The Military Quotation Book". Book by James Charlton (p. 114), 2002.
“One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
“Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.”

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