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“I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.”

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Robert Johnson was an American blues musician, considered one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. Although his musical career was short, his influence was profound, profoundly affecting future musicians. more

“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.”

Source: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society

“We find we breathe again, and hear the surgeon hum. Outside, in the street, a car starts up. The heart regularly Thunders.”

Heart Streets Car Breathe Thunder Surgeons

Book:An extended breath: collected longer poems and sequences

Source: An extended breath: collected longer poems and sequences

“What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.”

Ideas Community Lord Morality Shocking

Book:Taking Rights Seriously

Source: Taking Rights Seriously

“To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.”

Justice Poor Rich Charity Heal Breach

Author:Pope Pius X

“Crucifiers of Christ ought to be held in continual subjection.”

Christ Ought Subjection

Author:Pope Innocent III

“Marxism is the opium of the Marxists.”

Economy Marxism Marxist Opium

Author:Joan Robinson

“We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again.”

Thinking Should Trying Important America Law Energy Goal Answers Millions Judgment Finals Individuality Conviction Accomplish Resolve Disagreement Resourcefulness Cubicles

Author:Philip K. Howard

“A philosophy which speaks, even indirectly, only to philosophers is no philosophy at all; and I think the same is true if it speaks only to scientists, or only to jurists, or priests, or any other special class.”

Ifs Thinking Philosophy Speak Class Special Scientist Philosopher Priests Jurists

Author:Abraham Kaplan

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