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“For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.”
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“Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.”
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“Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.”
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“I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be abolished or evaded [invaded in Franklin's print] by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones.”
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“I wouldn't want to be defined so much by comics or cartoons. My work is more narrative than that. If you take your basic cartoon, there's always a punchline or a joke at the end. My drawings don't depend on that so much.”
Source : Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.
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“I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name.”
Source : Lisa Phillips, Richard Prince (1992). “Richard Prince”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.”
Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
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“It was the beauty that caught me and held my soul hostage... Remember those days? Had you smellin' my boxers.”