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| | Good restoration should contain its opposite: going away, softening, decay. Even the most meticulously preserved object, all glittering and pristine, should hint of its fate.
—Howard Mansfield |
| | The question keeps changing. that's why I do the job. There is no answer. There's no definitive answer.
—Karl Lagerfeld |
| | Politics is philosophy continued by other means.
—Scott McLemee |
| | In the midst of the crowd keep with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau |
| | Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases.
—Stephen Hawking |
| | You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.
—William Thurston
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| | The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
—Samuel Beckett |
| | If the choice for this century was between history and nature, we made a very bad bargain when we chose history because it appears history has come to an end. And we are very close to destroying nature.
—Vine DeLoria, Jr |
| | The right thing to do with a sense of loss is to understand why.
—Stephan Toulmin |
| | The trap for an artist is not the market, not the business, and not commerce. The danger is to lose the mission!
—Thomas Hirschhorn |
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