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John Constable

"My picture [A Boat Passing a Lock, 1823-6] is liked at the [Royal] Academy, indeed it forms a decided feature and its light can not be put out. Because it is the light of nature - the Mother of all that is valuable in poetry - painting or anything else... my execution annoys most of them and all the scholastic ones - perhaps the scarifies I make for 'lightness' and 'brightness' is too much but these things are the essence of Landscape."

Source : "Constable". Book by Conal Shields, p. 288. Letter to Rev. John Fisher (1824), 1993.

John Constable

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“Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.”

Source : Interview with Norman Ross, November 17, 1957.
“To be really happy, we must throw our hearts over the bar and hope that our bodies will follow.”
“Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.”
“During those days when you're exhausted and during those days when you're frustrated, during those days when you're being attacked by your own people for doing what you think is right, remember you're part of a progression that goes back a long time of ordinary people who are doing their best to make it a better world.”

Source : Source: www.bilerico.com
“Our Fellow Humans Did This? Using a plane full of civilian passengers to demolish a building filled with the civilian citizens of 80 different nations.Here is America struck by God Almighty ... so that its greatest buildings are destroyed ... I swear to God that America will not live in peace before peace reigns in Palestine, and before the army of the infidels depart the land of Mohammed.”
“You can't control all the crazy stuff that happens to you. All you can control is the way you handle it.”
“Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.”
“Act your age, not your shoe size.”

Source : "Kiss". Song by Prince Rogers Nelson, 1986.

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