"The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes."

-- Noah Webster

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“People think that the art market is about opportunists and hedge-fund managers getting broken art, but what really happened is that there was a new configuration of bourgeois values in the U.S. and an acceptance among the bourgeoisie of contemporary art as an idea. I think that bourgeois people are horrible.”
“You program music with an image and then people are desensitized.”
“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”
“Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness. Consumer culture exhausts us. We suffer. We destroy ourselves. And we just can't stop.”
“In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.”
“In products of the human mind, simplicity marks the end of a process of refining, while complexity marks a primitive stage. Michelangelo 's definition of art as the purgation of superfluities suggests that the creative effort consists largely in the elimination of that which complicates and confuses a pattern”
“Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.”
“We grew up with so much love in our family.”

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