"Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history."

-- Carlton J. H. Hayes

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“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.”
“Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin (1920). “The Centralia Conspiracy”, p.1, Library of Alexandria
“I tend to stay in one place and become a hermit and not leave. Work, work, work, and collect things, create and curate a space.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species.”
“I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.”
“I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.”

Source : "Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.
“Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.”
“Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.”

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