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“Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allows a number of æsthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)