"I shall not live much longer than did Keats."

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“I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.”

“I think the title page I drew for Salomé was after all "impossible". You see booksellers couldn't stick it up in their windows.”

“Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for the makers of soap and the public who are likely to wash.”

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"I am a Filipino born of freedom and I shall not rest until freedom shall have been added unto my inheritance - for myself and my children's children - forever"

— Carlos P. Romulo

Politics1899–1985

#freedom

"Since I set up the Unit, the area of solid state chemistry is no longer called so but is called chemistry of materials.This subject has become important. I set up this Unit in Bangalore much before th…"

— C. N. Ramachandra Rao

Science1934

#leadership

"You used to be able to depend on a bad film being poorly made. No longer. The Punisher: War Zone is one of the best-made bad movies I've seen...Its only flaw is that it's disgusting."

— Roger Ebert

Literature1942–2013

#philosophy

"Though I myself am an atheist, I openly profess religion in the sense just mentioned, that is, a nature religion. I hate the idealism that wrenches man out of nature; I am not ashamed of my dependency…"

— Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Philosophy1804–1872

#nature