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Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
Ronald Reagan


Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring
elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk
arts and crafts of a nation.
Thor Hansen

Have you seen that portrait Gaugin did of me painting sunflowers?
it was really I, but it\'s I gone mad.
Vincent Van Gogh

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don\'t mean to do harm. But
the
harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot