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A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.


John Singer Sargent

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MARC SINGER 'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'
PAUL SINGER If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tr...
PETER SINGER This is the starting shot for an online land rush across Europe. We welcome this first step towards ...
ADAM SINGER There is no doubt that there is a huge difference between human and nonhuman animals. But what we ar...
PETER SINGER This kind of visit is oversold; you would not have a shift in the public opinion. It's a one day sto...
PETER SINGER Britain has to decide whether it's trying to influence the individual or influence the environment t...
PETER SINGER the traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, tec...
PETER SINGER It's not going to be the individual ... technical (public health) decisions that are going to hold o...
PETER SINGER It's true that monetary policy was too lax for too long, and the government encouraged lending t...
PAUL SINGER If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds b...
PETER SINGER Kubrick showed us something special. Every film was a challenge, and a direct assault on cinema'...
BRYAN SINGER In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease wou...
PETER SINGER I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pret...
PETER SINGER When diamonds' role in fuelling violent conflict in Africa gained worldwide attention, the diamo...
PETER SINGER All I say about severely disabled babies is that when a life is so miserable it is not worth living,...
PETER SINGER If governments did not mislead their citizens so often, there would be less need for secrecy, and if...
PETER SINGER Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as d...
PAUL SINGER The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an ame...
PAUL SINGER In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a maj...
PETER SINGER Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are...
PETER SINGER I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actua...
PETER SINGER Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to...
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