I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice i… — Quoted

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“I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.”

Tom Stoppard · Future

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Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Art

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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Art

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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Age