リアリティに比類ない美しさがあることに相変わらず気づいていない人がいる。幻想的で思いがけないもの、絶えず変化してまた新しくなるもの、そのようなものはどこよりも現実の世界そのものの中に示されている。 - ベレニス・アボット (1898 - 1991)
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Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself. - Berenice Abbott (1898 - 1991)
![IMAGE: The usefulness of (the) useless. [Everyone knows the usefulness of useful things, but no one knows the usefulness of useless things. / Everyone knows the use of the useful, but not the use of the useless.] (Even if something did not bring immediate benefit, it could still turn out to be valuable.)](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/place-name-sign-822236_640-100x71.jpg)
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
![IMAGE: He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. [He that fights and runs away lives to fight another day.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/escape-route-1941735_640-100x75.jpg)
![IMAGE: Fine feathers make fine birds. / The tailor makes the man. [Apparel makes the man. / Clothes make the man.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/shoes-923163_640_swan-feather-16307_640-100x67.jpg)
