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Art takes nature as its model.
Aristotle


I couldn\'t help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and
mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a
threat to this world from another planet. We\'d find out once and for all
that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.
Ronald Reagan

We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with
exalted personages -- stand quietly before them and wait until they speak
to us.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan