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— Joshua Reynolds"It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work."
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The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.
— Michelangelo
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Definition of inertia: 'The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly forward in a straight line.
— Isaac Newton
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