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“The canary bird in the coal mine theory of the arts: artists should be treasured as alarm systems.”

Should Art Artist Mines Theory Bird Coal Alarms Treasured Canaries

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.”

World Mind Littles Problem Failing Mines Theory Ought Silly Apology Delightful Apologising

Book:Moab is My Washpot

Source: Moab is My Washpot

“I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.”

World Eye Wanted Felt My Own Mines Theory Habit Authority Contemporary Urges New World Contemporary Life Classicism

Book:Dangerous corner

Source: Dangerous corner

“The play of Hillary Clinton is to do exactly what she did with Whitewater, with the conspiracy theories about Vince Foster's suicide, with the conspiracy theory that Clinton Foundation donations somehow went to the Russians to open a Nickel mine in Canada, this is all nonsense. This stuff has been going on for 30 years.”

Years Has Beens Play Stuff Mines Theory Foundation Suicide Clinton Canada Nonsense Conspiracy Donation Conspiracy Theory Nickels

Author:Thomas Roberts

“All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.”

Knows Doe Art Made Mines Theory Approach New Approach

Author:Domenico Gnoli

“No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the capacities are present, unlike other animals, as far as is known. There's no challenge to the theory - not mine, but everyone's - that the human language faculty provides the means for generation of an infinite array of structured expressions.”

Ifs Humans Mean Children Language Challenges Animal Known Doubt Generations Mines Expression Theory Capacity Infinite Faculty Boston Human Language

Author:Noam Chomsky

“A friend of mine had this great theory about the Teletubbies, that it's preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. That's why the scenery is so flat.”

World Mines Ready Theory Flats Preparing Scenery Mindless

Author:Rachel McAdams