"Injure a businessman and he'll try to make you sorry; injure an artist and he'll try to make you immortal."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

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— Jane Goodall

activism1934–2025

#art

"Part of his speech on a wax phonograph cylinder"

— Lajos Kossuth

Politics1802–1894

#art

"The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced."

— Clement Greenberg

Art1909–1994

#knowledge

"If Adam had finished his course of perfect obedience, he would have been justified: and certainly his justification would have implied something more than what is merely negative; he would have been a…"

— Jonathan Edwards (theologian)

Philosophy1703–1758

#death