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of flowers. Georgia O\'Keeffe 1887-1986

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escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless
dreariness, from the fetters of one\'s own ever-shifting desires. A finely
tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of
objective perception and thought. --Albert Einstein

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Ronald Reagan