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"Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye" - Thomas Jefferson"Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows... more
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"Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball." - Patrick Leigh Fermor"Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise... more
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"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists." - Marcel Duchamp"The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these... more
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"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the truly magical and spiritual powers of music arise from deeper levels of our psyche." - George Crumb"Although technical discussions are interesting to composers, I suspect that the... more
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"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists" - Franklin D. Roosevelt"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly... more
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"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." - Charles Bukowski
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you... more
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"Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good." - Mariska Hargitay
"I owe it all to little chocolate donuts." - John Belushi
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it:... more
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"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills." - Benoit Mandelbrot
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite... 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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"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy." - Marian Anderson
"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?" - Camille Paglia
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have... more
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"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto, are well known." - William Falconer
"The ecclesiastical establishments of Europe which serve to support tyrannical governments are not the Christian religion but abuses and corruptions of it." - Noah Webster
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions,... more
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"There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent objects such as they receive them, but never receive them as they are" - Joseph Joubert
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"There are some minds like either convex or concave mirrors, which represent... 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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"Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious consumption. They are intended as subliminal pills for the subconsious in order to exercise an hypnotic spell, especially on sociologists." - Marshall McLuhan
Original: 36"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $648"Any ad consciously attended to is comical. Ads are not meant for conscious... 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 think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful people. And that's something that can be developed. It can be self-taught." - Fred L. Turner
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"I think the ability to focus is a thread that runs through so-called successful... more
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"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship." - James Russell Lowell
Original: 48"h x 36"w ink on Acrylic Skin: $864"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient,... more
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