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A fantastical artistic rendering of a roundheaded figure with one eye. The quote reads: "They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines." Richard Dawkins

Genes

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An artistic rendering of a figure standing in water and looking toward the horizon where a moon appears to set. The quote reads: “We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it” Rainer Maria Rilke

In Love

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A fantastical artistic rendering of an alien spaceman standing in front of an alien space child. The quote reads: "The greatest danger to our future is apathy." Jane Goodall

The Future

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a giant eyeball emerging from the horizon. The quote reads: “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” Franz Kafka

Beauty

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a round headed human like figure in the foreground with a halo around the head. The quote reads: "In the fields of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind." Louis Pasteur

Prepared

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A fantastical artistic rendering of two robot like heads on the ground. The quote reads: “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” E.F. Schumacher

Intelligent Fool

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a head with glowing eyes i the foreground and a weird looking larger head and neck back right. The quote reads: "When you're a student, you're judged by how well you answer questions...But in life, you're judged by how good your questions are." Robert Langer

Good Question

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a huge round alien head in the foreground and bottom of the image. The quote reads: " We have met the enemy and he is us." Walt Kelly

The Enemy

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An artistic rendering of a figure that appears to stand upon a sea of stars, before a sea of stars. The quote reads: “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One Ought

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An artistic rendering of a figure standing on an upwardly curving horizon. The figure is silhouetted by the sun. The quote reads: First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out — because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak out for me. Martin Niemöller

I Was Not

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An artistic rendering of two figures walking down the center of a road to an illuminated opening. The quote reads: "I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong." Frederick Douglass

Unite

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure before a round lighted portal and a tree trunk that rises into a round light. The quote reads: "As an afterthought, it seems hardly proper to write of life without once mentioning happiness; so we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?" Hunter S. Thompson, 1955

Happiness

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure standing before a giant egg shaped object. The quote reads: “Find things beautiful as much as you can, most people find too little beautiful." Vincent van Gogh

Find Things

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An artistic rendering of a dark winter scene. There is an opening in a snow covered mountain leading to a bright, warm passage. The quote reads: “In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

Invincible

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a sphinx like entity whose arms form walls on a path inwards, There is a very small figure standing before the entrance. The quote reads: "It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" Jiddu Krishnamurti

Health

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a human-like figure walking away from a figure with a planet for a head. In between them is a ball with eyes. The quote reads: “Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.” Dale Carnegie

Most Fools

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An artistic rendering of two figures on a path through trees at different distances. The quote reads: "The point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." Rainer Maria Rilke

The Answer

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An artistic rendering of a figure sitting on a box facing to the right. Behind the figure to the left is an open book. The quote reads: "And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another." Hermann Hesse

Nonsense

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An artistic rendering of three odd looking trees on a plain with the horizon behind them. The quote reads: "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." Josh Billings

Scarce

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a single seedling sprouting up. In the background is an eye that appears to be part of a giant creature. The quote reads: “Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.” Leonardo da Vinci

Nature

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An artistic rendering of two figures, one in the foreground, looking out past the horizon to a galaxy. The quote reads: “If we want peace, we have to be peace. Peace is a practice, not a hope.” Thich Nhat Hahn

Peace

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a giant headed creature with huge eyes dominating the horizon, while small creatures are in the foreground. The quote reads: "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable." Aldous Huxley

Duly Rise

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An artistic rendering of a small figure standing on a small planet while a larger planet seems to closely move past from the left. The quote reads: "Courage is what others can't see, what is never affirmed. It is made of what you have thrown away and then come back for." Leonard Cohen

Not Affirmed

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure or structure seeming to grow out of an ocean while being reflected into it. The quote reads: "We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." Carlos Casteneda

Either

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An artistic rendering of stairs into the sky that lead to an open doorway. Quote read: "From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step."Napoleon Bonaparte

A Step

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An artistic rendering of a figure standing on water beneath an overhanging cliff. The quote reads: "An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation." Joseph Conrad

An Artist

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A fantastical artistic rendering of five figures with pig like heads in a filed. They are all wearing the same suits. The quote reads: "The power of the culture industry's ideology is such that conformity has replaced consciousness." Theodor W. Adorno

Conformity

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A fantastical artistic rendering of what might be a parent holding a child close while standing on a pedestal in the sea. There is a powerful light in the sky. The quote reads: "The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out." James Baldwin

Faith

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A black and white image of a caveman using a barbecue.

Echoes: From Pasts Unknown

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An artistic rendering of a figure sitting in meditation. The quote reads: “Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.” Jane Hirshfield

Attention

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A black and white image of a bee pushing a ball.

Echoes: Bees At Play

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An artistic rendering of a figure standing before a circle of light high in the sky. Small clouds fill the image and appear to descend to below the horizon. The quote reads: "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." Nelson Mandela

Freedom

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a small figure standing on a slope in front of a huge glowing screen. Behind the small figure is a giant, vaguely robot, figure sitting cross-legged. The quote reads: "Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end." Henry David Thoreau

Toys

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure standing in a doorway that looks out onto back space. Surround the doorway is the cosmos. The quote reads: "And if that is not to be, let there still be, to the last, gratitude, unbounded, heartfelt gratitude, for having been granted a spell in this world of wonders." J.M. Coetzee

Gratitude

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure with a bird head standing and watching as a giant bird draws very near. The quote reads: " Over the strained time-ridden faces. Distracted from distraction by distraction. Filled with fancies and empty of meaning " T.S. Eliot

Distracted

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a giant head rising from a fog high in the air. A small figure watches from the bottom right. The quote reads: " We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they’re dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb." Hunter S. Thompson

Weird

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a small mountain in front of a big mountain. They are both rising out of what may be a sea. The quote reads: " And there I got my hurt; for a man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a shortcut to meet it. " J.R.R. Tolkien

Fear

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An artistic rendering of a figure standing before an open entrance in a small structure that leads to a stage.to a stage. In front of the stage is a crowd. The figure and the entrance are in colour. The surrounding land is open and sepia toned. The quote reads: " People always say that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in." Rosa Parks

Tired

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a figure bathed in light standing before a woods. The quote reads: “For I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.” August Strindberg

A Savage

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A fantastical artistic rendering of a doorway/portal seen through a gap in the mountains. The quote reads: "I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth." Ursula K. Le Guin

Talk

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An artistic rendering of a figure in the foreground on a path in to a village. The quote reads: “While wandering down the path of wonder, I briefly escape the world of separation and enter the world of unity.” Hermann Hesse

Wonder

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An artistic rendering of a figure behind a barred window looking out to a snowy world. The quote reads: "If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. " Charles Bukowski

Friends

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An artistic rendering of a figure backstage facing the open curtains about to go on. The quote reads: "A fire broke out backstage in a theatre. The clown came out to warn the public; they thought it was a joke and applauded. He repeated it; the acclaim was even greater. I think that's just how the world will come to an end: to the general applause of wits who believe it's a joke" Soren Kierkegaard

A Joke

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An Artistic rendering of a majestic bird high up in the sky looking down on a small figure on the ground. The quote reads: "Never forget! The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly." Friedrich Nietzsche

Fly

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A fantastical artistic rendering of two figures backlit by a rising sun. Beside them are a very tall weird and goofy looking weird creature on the left, and an even taller mushroom like growth on the right. The quote reads: "We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anaïs Nin

We Are

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