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I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on.


Richard MacDonald


#art #because #being #bronze #collector

Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.


Rex Stout


#effort #shrewd #stokes #thousand #touches

The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.


Theodore Sturgeon


#company #dollars #dreamed #fact #first

Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority.


Antonio Tabucchi


#again #auschwitz #exterminated #fifty #gypsies

As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves.


Lewis Thomas


#clocks #covering #earth #endangering #evolution

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits.


Lewis Thomas


#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.


Jared Diamond


#ago #been #criteria #despite #domestic

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.


Philippe Halsman


#asked #asking #before #camera #celebrated

I join with Governor Rick Snyder and thousands of grassroots supporters and activists from across the state of Michigan in asking you all to please help me in supporting Pete Hoekstra, who I am proud to endorse. He will be our next United States senator.


Candice S. Miller


#activists #am #asking #endorse #governor

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.


Karen Kingsbury


#bull-rider #cf #grief #horses #karen