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"If wrappings of cloth can impart respectability, the most respectable persons are the Egyptian mummies, all wrapped in layers and layers of gauze."

— Kamala Surayya

Literature1934–2009

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"What I like best is the acoustic ceiling in Caracas, in the auditorium of the university . It's made from great panels of plywood - some thirty feet long - more or less horizontal and tilted to reflec…"

— Alexander Calder

Art1898–1976

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"It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart."

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music1756–1791

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"Diversity" as an abstraction has no meaning. Today, however, it means racial preference and nothing else. A commitment to diversity, apart from the ends it may serve, is absurd."

— Harry V. Jaffa

Philosophy1918–2015

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