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“You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

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— Seymour Cray

Mathematics1925–1996

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"The Versatilismo always searchs the expressions artistic that promote the man and the society, respecting the level of conscience of the artist."

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Art1964

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"Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves."

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