"A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts."

-- Joseph Alsop

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“A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can make you see the depth, make you feel the underlying emotion, make you sense the larger world. That, too, is the power of science: to sense and convey the depth and dimensionality of nature, to glance at the surface and to divine the shape of the universe around us.”
“Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed.”
“Anonymity is the fame of the future.”
“Never been to Sesame Street but I flip a Big Bird. And I know "stealers" and they not from Pittsburgh.”

Source : Song: 357, Album: Confessions of Fire, 1998
“The beauty of design ought to be totally incidental to the enterprise itself.”
“Good fiction necessarily encompasses our limited understandings of one another, and of ourselves.”
“Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.”
“When you're older you want to learn from other people.”

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