"The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity."

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“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.”

“My heart pumping 70 times a minute every minute my whole life. What a task! To reach any age in those terms sounds miraculous!”

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"A year among the Italians had converted me to such an admiration for their humanity and culture that I realise that were I given the chance to be born again and to choose the place of my birth, Italy …"

— Norman Lewis

Art1912–2006

#Human Nature

"Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in…"

— Philip Stanhope

Politics1584–1656

#Human Nature

"Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about."

— Willard van Orman Quine

Philosophy1908–2000

"And as we are — the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are. To bring about o…"

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Education1895–1986

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