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“This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!”

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John Adams, the second President of the United States, was a statesman, diplomat, and writer. Born on October 30, 1735, and died on July 4, 1826, Adams played a significant role in the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and served as the President from 1789 to 1797. more

“So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.”

Men Long Natural Animal Emotion Struggle Fields Degrees Wounds Dumb Impulse Honour Compassionate Animal Rights Spiders Butchers

Author:John Newton

“For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her”

People Knows War Pleasure Animal Subjects Battle Dear Beer Feds Animal Rights Liquor Beef Fed Up Owing

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“... Art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”

Humans Art Imagination Exercise Art Is Soar Human Imagination

Book:The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys

Source: The Winding Passage: Sociological Essays and Journeys

“The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.”

Men Art Pain Artist Suffering Understanding Growing He Man Succeed Advantage Sensibility Great Art Great Artist

Author:Walter Kaufmann

“The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.”

Art Artist Warmth Coolness

Author:Robert Townsend

“Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.”

Thinking Feels Art Running Grows Perception Hook

Author:Robert Hughes

“Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.”

Wells May Matter Anger

Author:Martha Beck

“If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.”

Ifs Turns Causes Terrible Anger Ridiculous Fury

Book:The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue, and Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry

Source: The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying: Together with Prayers and Acts of Virtue, and Rules for the Visitation of the Sick, and Offices Proper for that Ministry

“With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.”

Knows Different Interesting Style Broken Anger Chaos Frustration Skating Different Styles Different Life

Author:John Robinson

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