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Lack of ornament is a sign of spiritual strength.

Adolf Loos

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Loos, Adolf. "Ornament und Verbrechen [Ornament and Crime]." 21 Jan. 1910, Academic Association for Literature and Music, Vienna, Austria. Lecture.

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Loos, Adolf. Ornament and Crime. Penguin Classics, 2019.

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In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time

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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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Or love me less, or love me more
And play not with my liberty;
Either take all, or all restore,
Bind me at least, or set me free.

Sidney Godolphin

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Godolphin, Sidney. Song. c. 1712.

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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation.

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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James, William. "Mysticism." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

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James, William. "Mysticism." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Clonmore & Reynolds/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Stubby Currence

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Anonymous. Quoted in Oklahoma City Star. 1934.

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I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Martha Gellhorn

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Gellhorn, Martha. "Letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969." Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead. Holt, 2007. Originally a letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969.

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What is it about people that since the dawn of time we've wanted to mark our presence so that other people will see it?

Chuck Close

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Close, Chuck. Quoted in Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere. Random House, 1998. Originally spoken during an interview with Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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Neon looks good in Nevada.

John McPhee

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McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

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The customer is never wrong.

Cesar Ritz

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Ritz, Cesar. Quoted in Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals and Man, by Ralph Nevill and Charles Edward Jerningham. Duckworth & Co, 1908.

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The liberal must understand that the days of the Noble Savage are gone; that the blacks do not need a go-between in this struggle for their own emancipation. No true liberal should feel any resentment at the growth of black consciousness. Rather, all true liberals should realize that the place for their fight for justice is within their white society.

Steve Biko

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Biko, Steve. "Black Souls in White Skins?" SASO newsletter, July/August 1970.

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Biko, Steve. "Black Souls in White Skins?" I Write What I Like: Selected Writings, edited by Aelred Stubbs. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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I was getting two educations: One from the street and one from school. That way I’d be twice as smart as everybody.

A Bronx Tale

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A Bronx Tale. Directed by Robert De Niro, Price Entertainment/TriBeCa Productions, 1993.

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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

John Henry Newman

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Newman, John Henry. "History of my Religious Opinions up to 1833." Apologia Pro Vita Sua. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.

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Newman, John Henry. "History of my Religious Opinions up to 1833." Apologia Pro Vita Sua, edited by Ian Ker. Penguin Classics, 1995.

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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 16, sec. 2. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.

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No, I like baseball. I just never understood how you guys can spend so much time discussing it. I mean, I've been to games, but I don't memorize who played third base for Pittsburgh in 1960.

City Slickers

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City Slickers. Directed by Ron Underwood, Castle Rock Entertainment/Face Productions/Nelson Entertainment, 1991.

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Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot; or Prologue to the Satires." 1735, I. 201-205.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 201-205.

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The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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The Cherokee nation...is a distinct community, occupying its own territory...which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties and with the acts of Congress.

John Marshall

Worcester v. Georgia

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Worcester v. Georgia. United States Reports, vol. 31, 3 Mar. 1832, pp. 515-597. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/31/515/.

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