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"To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always wagered against God and I regard the little that I have won in this world as simply the outcome of this bet. However paltry may have been the stake (my life) I am conscious of having won to the full. Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, vile, polluted and grotesque is summoned up for me in that one word: God!" - Andre Breton"To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made... more
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In Un mondo al bivio Lester Brown torna a spiegare con la consueta chiarezza perché è esattamente questo il momento di rompere ogni indugio e attuare misure decisive a favore della sostenibilità dei sistemi produttivi e delle economie in generale. Il piano B passa da queste scelte.In Un mondo al bivio Lester Brown torna a spiegare con la consueta chiarezza... more
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"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in... more
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"Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety." - Edgar Allan Poe"Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very... more
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"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
"Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?" - Pablo Picasso
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso... more
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"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything." - Emma Thompson
Original: 36"h x 48"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from... more
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"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens... more
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"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control." - J. William Fulbright
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon... more
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"The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and are only waiting for the end of the emergency to get back to a really congenial occupation such as slum demolition or debt collecting." - Alan Brien
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into... more
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"Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for household and other purposes. Without such planning, things would quickly go awry." - Walter Ulbricht
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"Any sensible family has a budget that lays out how much will be spent for... more
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"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the... more
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"I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red tape." - James Q. Wilson
"The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius." - Guy de Maupassant"I will have an administrative system where there is no way to extricate red... more
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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." - Pablo Picasso
"Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun." - Pablo Picasso
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from... more
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"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself." - Elbert Hubbard
"Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil." - Anatole France
"Art is the daughter of freedom." - Friedrich Schiller"Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will... more
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"As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years constantly moving over the wide world on journeys which first and last have taken me to 83 countries, and, what is more significant, to most of them again and again." - John Raleigh Mott"As the President has indicated, my life has been a life of travel - for 60 years... more
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"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." - Albert Einstein"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these... more
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"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are." - Dale Carnegie"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your... more
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"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them." - Martin Luther King, Jr."Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of... more
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"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church" - Ferdinand Magellan"The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen... more
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"Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse." - James Longstreet"Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness,... more
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