"Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure."

-- Sally Satel

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“During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.”
“Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.”

Source : Stella Benson (1922). “The Poor Man”
“...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.”
“You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.”

Source : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 76), 2002.
“Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.”
“This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.”
“What the eye sees is a synthesis of who you are and all you have learned. This is what I would call the language of photography.”
“The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.”

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