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Happy Birthday, Paul Barstch: Toast with a Cocktail Recipe by the Pioneering Zoologist and Explorer
Happy Birthday, Paul Barstch: Toast with a Cocktail Recipe by the Pioneering Zoologist and Explorer

“A bandage for the head in the morning would not be out of place.”

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Frida Kahlo’s Politics
Frida Kahlo’s Politics

“I am only a cell in the complex revolutionary mechanism of the peoples for peace in the new nations … united in blood to me.”

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Susan Sontag on Sex
Susan Sontag on Sex

“If only I could feel about sex as I do about writing! That I’m the vehicle, the medium, the instrument of some force beyond myself.”

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Thoreau on Friendship, Consciousness, and Seeing Kinship Across Our Creaturely Differences
Thoreau on Friendship, Consciousness, and Seeing Kinship Across Our Creaturely Differences

“A man [is] commonly a locked-up chest to us, to open whom, unless we have the key of sympathy, will make our hearts bleed.”

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How Inviting the Unknown Helps Us Know Life More Richly
How Inviting the Unknown Helps Us Know Life More Richly

“The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.”

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Religion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality
Religion vs. Humanism: Isaac Asimov on Science and Spirituality

“The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death.”

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Pioneering Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Science and Life: Timeless Wisdom from Her Diaries
Pioneering Astronomer Maria Mitchell on Science and Life: Timeless Wisdom from Her Diaries

“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”

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Susan Sontag’s Bulletpointed Bodily Self-Portrait
Susan Sontag’s Bulletpointed Bodily Self-Portrait

Low blood pressure, loves sleep but grinds teeth, craves pure sugar but dislikes desserts.

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Frida Kahlo’s DIY Paint Recipe
Frida Kahlo’s DIY Paint Recipe

How to emulate artistic genius via a home-cooked emulsion.

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Swiss Philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel on Love, Its Torments, and Its Redemptions
Swiss Philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel on Love, Its Torments, and Its Redemptions

“Do not amend by reasoning, but by example; approach feeling by feeling; do not hope to excite love except by love.”

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