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" For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. "
Bridget Riley
Forces
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" The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that. "
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" Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life. "
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" Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. "
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" Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. "
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" Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. "
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