Please note that on page 124 of Abstraction in the Twentieth Century, Mark Rothko's Black, Ochre, Red over Red, is reproduced upside down.

Guggenheim Museum

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

Jean Cocteau

One of the advantages of being young is that you don't let common sense get in the way of doing things everyone else knows are impossible.

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A person who walks in another's track leaves no footprints.

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It's important to be open-minded, but no so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Rick Radebaugh

Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, the police German and it's all organized by the Italians.

On a T-shirt

No problem is so big and complicated that it can't be run away from.

Peanuts

How could this happen? We started out like Romeo and Juliet, but it ended up in tragedy.

Milhouse in “The Simpsons”

At the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly contradictory attitudes — an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep thruts are winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

There are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't.

Stevenvh

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Aristotle

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Socrates

I want to ask God two questions. One is “why is quantum mechanics so weird?” and the other one is “how do you explain turbulence?”. I'm certain God would know the answer to the first question.

Werner Heisenberg (paraphrased)

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday and all is well.

On a sign in a window

Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

Andy Borowitz

So gun laws won't work because criminals don't follow laws. Tell me, why then do we have laws at all?

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If guns don't kill people, people kill people, then why in the hell do you need a gun?

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If women took up arms to defend their reproductive rights, the GOP would ban assault rifles yesterday.

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Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder.

James Carville

Fox News saved my life. I had spent six weeks in a coma after a terrible accident. A visitor to my hospital room turned on Fox News. I had to get up and change the channel.

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Don't try to understand women. Women understand women and they hate each other.

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The Second Amendment: It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!

Robin Williams

You could talk about same-sex marriage, but people who have been married say, "It's the same sex all the time."

Robin Williams

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Robin Williams

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

Robin Williams