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Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum.
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Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
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History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
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One's mind and the earth are in a constant state of erosion, mental rivers wear away abstract banks, brain waves undermine cliffs…
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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation…
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The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.
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The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set…
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest…
— P T Barnum
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are…
— Theodore Dreiser
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…
— Tertullian
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers…
— Robert Fulton
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,…
— John T. Flynn
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Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an…
— Emily Post
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I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's…
— Garry Kasparov
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