The surface of American proverb

 The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
  Alexis de Tocqueville

 The most significant finding is the nature of the surface of the comet. We now know that it isn't covered in a hard crust. It's a fine-grained, loosely glued layer of organic powder and ice. You couldn't make a snowball on Tempel 1.

 We were out here for six months covered in drywall dust, covered in paint, covered in plaster. We put in our blood, sweat and tears.

 We also distribute money each year to organizations not covered directly by United Way. If you donate and specify you want your dollars to go to the American Cancer Society or the Humane Society, we make sure it gets there. Other agencies benefit from our efforts and we are thrilled.

 For making the ice, we made sure we have allowed ourselves enough time so that we are not going to get ourselves jammed into a corner. We are going to be patient to make ice in the best way -- the best way to make a solid layer of ice is you layer it a little bit at a time and you don't rush it. You don't go up there and dump 1,200 gallons and walk away and wait for it to freeze. We do it in small layers with a hose and a fine mist, and hour after hour.

 I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.

 My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
  Victor Hugo

 We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
  Ronald Reagan

 Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world.
  Thomas Babington Macaulay

 To be aristocratic in Art one must avoid polite society
  George Moore

 I blend time frames in my paintings. I tend to like things without the reference of time. A garden could be now, it could be 100 years ago. It's a garden. When I paint hometown settings, things like that, there is a sense of embracing an older life, but I have to say I like to mix time frames. I like to paint what could be now, if the right cars were on the street.

 We don't know exactly how they were built, presumably people who worked on site were asked to just build them. Sometimes, like in the studios, we just accepted the patina of paint that had accrued over time and just left it as a kind of found surface, which distinguishes and differentiates the rooms.

 Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

 American universities reflect American society ... where you do have completely segregated communities. Our fear would be that that is happening here as well. If we are not careful we will drift into an American-style coexistence, where inequality is entrenched in society.

 Israel's lack of regard for the road map is having a powerfully negative effect on Palestinian society at an extremely critical time in our democratic development.


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