"Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active."
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?“
-Leonardo da Vinci
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"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
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