"What I saw was the hoax: Immortals questioning mortality when they should have asked eternity."

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"Graves: An obvious adaptation! Where the “Dialogue” uses ‘’’prince’’’, the “Protocols” uses ‘’’king.’’’"

— Will Eisner

Literature1917–2005

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"I returned to school , but I felt very sore and had little strength. I took my paintings to Diego , and he liked them a lot, most of all the self-portrait. But of the rest he told me that I was influe…"

— Frida Kahlo

Art1907–1954

#friendship

"The present book is not a methodology of mathematics in the sense that I will systematically show how some teaching matter should taught; it is not even a systematic analysis of subject matter. I hard…"

— Hans Freudenthal

Mathematics1905–1990

#education

"Who are we that we should invite Germany to acquiesce in the principles of "Uti Possidetis" at a moment when we possess comparatively everything and they possess comparatively nothing? It is a law as …"

— F. E. Smith

Politics1872–1930

#justice