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• Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
  The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired....
• All advances by degrees in Nature, and nothing by leaps, and this law as applied to each, is part of my doctrine of Continuity.
  Although there may exist in some other world species intermediate between Man and the Apes, Nature has thought it best to remove them from us, in order to establish our superiority beyond question....
• More light!" --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer, 1749-March 22, 1832.
• He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
  -- Goethe...
• LORE, n. Learning -- particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or by nature.
  This latter is commonly designated as folk-lore and embraces popularly myths and superstitions....
• Cosmetics: A womans' means to keep a man from reading between lines...
• Bart: Oooh, what's that? Otto: My very own idea for a comic book, little man.
  [unveils his conception of Busman, which bears a distinct resemblance to Otto despite some anatomically awesome features] It's about a dude who drives a school bus by day, but by night, fights vampires in a post-apocalyptic war zone!...
• He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book i, Chap....
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....