"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful - that is the faith I am searching for." ~ George Sand
There are no McDonald's in Ghana.
"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them." ~ Jules Verne
"I think that if ever a mortal heard the word of God it would be in a garden at the cool of day." ~ F. Frankfort Moore
"Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth" ~ Aristotle
Early South American humans used to hunt car-sized armadillos called Glyptodon. They would use the shells for housing.
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