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But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was
elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan


Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great
matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man\'s reasonable
perception into feeling. In our age the common religious perception of men
is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man-we know that the well-being
of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate
the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should
transform this perception into feeling.

Life is eating us up. We all shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. -- Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan