Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality. - Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Every work of art depicts an aspect of reality.

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As the Americans slaughter millions of turkeys every year for the celebration of their deliverance, the Indians, who should be celebrated as saviors, have long been slaughtered. There was even a time when a white man was paid a very decent price for every Indian scalp he could produce.

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The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.

Oppose, Power, Protest, System, Want, World

Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.

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Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

Freedom, God, Grace, Humans, Justice

A reasonable change of the world can not be instrumented by pure reason.

Change, Instrumented, Reason, World

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The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.

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I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

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Joao Magueijo

Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.

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Every picture of you is when you were younger.

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I'm inspired by making people laugh at subjects that should make them cry.

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