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“It seems to me that art is a great miracle-it is the showing forth of the Holy Spirit transubstantiation.It is to find and proclaim the poetry of life,without which there is no life.”

“The role of art is to give food for thought,to act as a stimulant,to entice the onlooker to inspect things, people,emotions,from a new point of view.”

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"Only the news concerning Black people made any impact at all on me. And it seemed that each year the news got worse. The first of the really bad news that i remember was Montgomery, Alabama. That was …"

— Assata Shakur

Social Activism1947–2025

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"Tiberius Caesar, who meanwhile had come to reign, did not order an immediate invasion , and for the moment the anti-Roman party in Armenia was victorious; but it was not his intention to abandon the i…"

— Theodor Mommsen

Science1817–1903

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"The 'minute' meant more like minute … Like we were small compared to a big arena rock band. And the other reason for the name — I had a bunch of names on a paper, and D. Boon picked that one. He liked…"

— Mike Watt

Music1957

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"Among Troyon's paintings there are two huge ones; Return to the Farm is marvelous with its beautiful stormy sky. There is much windy motion in the clouds, and the cows and dogs are very good. In Going…"

— Claude Monet

Art1840–1926

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