The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.


Edward Tufte

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The person of wisdom is the person of years.
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When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.
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My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.
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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
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To leave a sting within a brother's heart.
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Much learning shows how little mortals know: Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
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And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
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Those who build beneath the stars build too low.
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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
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Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
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To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
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Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
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Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
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The art of creation is older than the art of killing.
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If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
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You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
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Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll wit...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the colde...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.
EDWARD FAIRFAX
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD WINDSOR
There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is man himse...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and ski...
EDWARD STEICHEN
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON