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• The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
  -- Jean Rostand...
• I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle .
  . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved....
• AUCTIONEER, n. The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience
  like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it....
• Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
• Laws are only words words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen.
  Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher....
• In a nuclear war, all men will be cremated equally.
• System-independent: Works equally poorly on all systems.