"In a free society, art is not a weapon." -- Pres. John F. Kennedy
"We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe." -- John Henry Newman, 1848
"Omnia Romae cum Pretio [Everything in Rome ... at a price.]" -- Juvenal
"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause." -- Henrí Bergson (1907)
"Nothing could be more lovely and fearless than Chaucer. But already Shakespeare is morbid with fear, fear of consequences. That is the strange phenomenon of the English Renaissance: this mystic terror of the consequences, the consequences of actions." -- D.H.Lawrence, Phoenix (1936)
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