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“No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.”

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Belva Ann Lockwood, born on October 24, 1830, and died on May 19, 1917, was an American attorney. She is known as the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the United States and the first woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. more

“Human beings of all societies in all periods of history believe that their ideas on the nature of the real world are the most secure, and that their ideas on religion, ethics and justice are the most enlightened. Like us, they think that final knowledge is at last within reach. Like us, they pity the people in earlier ages for not knowing the true facts. Unfailingly, human beings pity their ancestors for being so ignorant and forget that their descendants will pity them for the same reason.”

“The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.”

Years Age Universe Stars Space Cities Darkness Growing Dying Depth Billions Candle Fades Galaxy Celestial Graveyard Memorabilia

Author:Edward Robert Harrison

“I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.”

People Thinking Havens Fascinating

Author:Carly Fiorina

“Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.”

Needs Light

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.”

Ifs World Next Fun This World

Book:W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais

Source: W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais

“You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.”

Example Masters Fine Fine Things

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.”

Source: W.M. Hunt's Talks about Art: With a Letter from J.E. Millais

“Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!”

Ifs Trying One Thing Subjects Painting Rose Impression Colour Expenses

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

“How are we going to make painters by lecturing to them? We are going to make questioners, doubters, and talkers. We are going to make painters by painting ourselves, and by showing the paintings of others. By working frankly from our convictions, we are going to make them work frankly from theirs.”

Painting Conviction Painter Talkers Doubters Lecturing

Author:William Morris Hunt

“I tell you it's no joke to paint a portrait. I wonder that I am not more timid when I begin. I feel almost certain that I can do it. It seems very simple. I don't think of the time that is sure to come when I almost despair, when the whole thing seems hopeless.”

Thinking Feels I Can Whole Seems Certain Can Do Simple Wonder Despair Jokes Paint Hopeless Portraits I Can Do It

Author:William Morris Hunt

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