#ect

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#collection #hear #i #like #me

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#among #aware #becomes #cause #causes

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#child #during #earliest #familiar #himself

From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#built #causal #connected #independent #into

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter? ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#face #human #human face #mirror #painter

One must act in painting as in life, directly. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#directly #life #must #painting

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#different #different things #foreign #foreign oil #fuel

The House is rooted in the principle of direct elections and is unique among all branches and bodies of the federal government as without exception, the people's voice. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#bodies #branches #direct #elections #exception

I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries. ↗

— Alvaro Uribe

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