"To embrace the fullness of possible experience without fear strikes me as heroic, impossibly heroic."

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“The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity.”

“Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.”

“When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.”

“You have to work out how not to die tomorrow.”

“The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.”

“I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.”

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— Roger Wolcott Sperry

Science1913–1994

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"You know, I couldn't go out into the high street without a bunch of kids following me. I felt like the Pied Piper."

— William Hartnell

Entertainment1908–1975

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"...The more a man knows about individual objects, the more he knows about God. Translating Spinoza's language into ours, we can say: The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of exp…"

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— Leszek Kołakowski

Philosophy1927–2009

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