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The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Hermann Hesse
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Excerption: The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
George Orwell
After a certain point, money is meaningless, it ceases to be the goal, the game is what counts.
Aristotle Onassis
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis
Justice is to be found only in the imagination.
Alfred Bernhard Nobel
Sometimes people don`t want to hear the truth because they don`t want their illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
Isaac Newton
Do not regret growing old; many are denied the privilege.
Ogden Nash
In revolutions there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
Napoleon I
Great artists have no country.
Alfred de Musset
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Charles de Montesquieu
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20 000 Euro Prize Money Paid out to Artists

On 6 July, awards ceremony and opening of the juried exhibition “Martinsons Award” marked the end of the 2nd Latvia International Ceramics Biennale. The biennale was part of the Latvian centenary programme and was organised with a view to developing contemporary ceramics as a discipline, promoting cooperation among the Baltic states and commemorating the artistic legacy of Pēteris Martinsons, who is widely considered the father of Latvian contemporary ceramics.