"Rain has always been connected in my mind with kindness."

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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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"A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say."

— Samuel Johnson

Literature1709–1784

#knowledge

"There is nothing supernatural about the process of self-organization to states of higher entropy; it is a general property of systems, regardless of their materials and origin. It does not violate the…"

— Ervin László

Philosophy1932

#justice

"Robin was an outgrowth of a conversation I had with Bob. As I said, Batman was a combination of Douglas Fairbanks and Sherlock Holmes. Holmes had his Watson. The thing that bothered me was that Batman…"

— Bill Finger

Literature1914–1974

#mind

"I've always wanted to blow up dams in order to save salmon, sturgeon, and other creatures whose lives depend on wild and living rivers. But that's not right. We need to blow up dams for the rivers the…"

— Derrick Jensen

Social Activism1956–2017

#life