"When you stop growing you start dying."

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Resonant Thoughts

"It had been a long dull evening, with only the thought of leaving the party early to look forward to."

— Larry Niven

Literature1938

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"It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician."

— Aubrey Beardsley

Art1872–1898

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"The artist make things move, and is moved. He is policeman, motor car, everything at once. He who makes things move also creates rest. That which aesthetically is brought to rest is art."

— Piet Mondrian

Art1872–1944

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"We have a saying in the union: "If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck." That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does eve…"

— Walter Reuther

Social Activism1907–1970

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