"Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919."

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Source : "The Brief, Glorious Life Of Bauhaus (New York Review)" by Martin Fuller, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

Martin Filler

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“The law's the law, but people are people.”

Source : M. L. Stedman (2012). “The Light Between Oceans”, p.276, Simon and Schuster
“Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens”
“An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.”
“The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.”

Source : Lester Frank Ward (1915). “Dynamic Sociology ....”
“I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.”
“The world makes you something that youâ€™re not - but you know inside what you are.”

Source : "Why I must come out". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2014.
“If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.”

Source : "The Psychology of Religion". Book by Joseph McCabe, 1927.
“I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,”

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