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We understand through resemblance.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Successful innovations become conventions.
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Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.
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Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.
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Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
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Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
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