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Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you. ”
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture. ”
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental. ”
I was always the kid who could draw. I had this talent, and it was the one thing that gave me some kind of dignity in the midst of my personal environment. ”
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever. ”
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ”
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. ”
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. ”
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ”
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. ”