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I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I
believe they are correct. Now, I\'m not going to deny that you don\'t now
and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
Ronald Reagan
I think when we get those moments where things are just too hard to comprehend, there is a whole different world.

- C.S. Lewis, In Places

How important are the visual arts in our society? I feel strongly
that
the visual arts are of vast and incalculable importance. Of course
I
could be prejudiced. I am a visual art.
Kermit the Frog, muppet

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set
off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne