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The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these
liberal
arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy,
perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic.
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Now that I am a Christian I do not have moods in which the whole thing looks very improbable: but when I was an atheist I
had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.

- C.S. Lewis, In Religion

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

Status quo, you know, is Latin for \'the mess we\'re in\'.
Ronald Reagan