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Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.

—Willem de Kooning, 1949

Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.

—Susanna Centlivre, 1703

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

—Winston Churchill, 1945

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

—Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1897

The money we have is the means to liberty; that which we pursue is the means to slavery.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, c. 1770

If you have any soul worth expressing, it will show itself in your singing.

—John Ruskin, 1865

The only justification of rebellion is success.

—Thomas B. Reed, 1878

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1807

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

New things are always ugly.

—Willa Cather, 1921

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

—Maya Angelou, 1993

Life’s no resting, but a moving.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, c. 1795