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  • There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.

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    1913 His opinion on the International Exhibition of Modern Art in NewYork, popularly known asTheArmoury Show.'A Layman's Views of an Art Exhibition', inThe Outlook (9 Mar).
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There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another. - Theodore Roosevelt
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