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- Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our own table. - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- The devil made me do it.
- Flip Wilson (1933 - 1998)
- I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
- Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
- However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Maxims, 1665
- In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness.
- Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
- Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
- Jim Bishop
- A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Politics and the English Language", 1946
- To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist
- Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
- Gerald White Johnson, American Heroes and Hero-Worships, Chapter 1
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