"Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently."

-- Tania Bruguera

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“I was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history. I was the only one who was right about one of the most significant issues in modern American history.”
“And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.”
“There is no shortcut to truth, no way to gain knowledge of the universe except through the gateway of the scientific method.”
“Delay is preferable to error.”
“We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred thousand. We have acquired an arrogance about ourselves that I find frightening. We have come to feel that we are so far apart from the rest of nature that we have but to command.”

Source : Horace Marden Albright, Marston Bates (1962). “The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship”
“Those who donâ€™t love themselves as they are rarely love life either.”
“Evie hadnâ€™t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, sheâ€™d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER Oâ€™NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.”

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