"Potluck Supper with Meeting to FollowÂ is a marvel, deftly examining the connections between art and everyday life. Andy Sturdevant's lively, unique inquiries into trust fund kids, co-opted flags, gubernatorial portraits, art in second-tier cities, and Upper Midwestern esoterica, brim with both wit and humor."

-- Joe Meno

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“We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.”

Source : "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.
“There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.”
“When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.”
“Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.”
“Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.”

Source : 1967 Science is Not Enough.
“The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.”
“When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited.”

Source : Isa Bowman (1900). “The Story of Lewis Carroll: Told for Young People by the Real Alice in Wonderland, Miss Isa Bowman”
“There are no rules to attraction. Jake is nothing like who I wanted.”

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