"Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?"

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Source : José Clemente Orozco (2014). “José Clemente Orozco: An Autobiography”, p.24, University of Texas Press

Jose Clemente Orozco

“Il ne fallait jamais faire des expÃ©riences pour confirmer ses idÃ©es, mais simplement pour les contrÃ´ler. We must never make experiments to confirm our ideas, but simply to control them.”
“A kid's emotions and personality are just as important as I.Q.”
“I was always active - I went from baseball to football. I didn't have time to work out.”
“At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed windowâ€“do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physicaly capable of no more,or does it eventualy learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”

Source : "Forbidden". Book by Tabitha Suzuma, 2010.
“Stardom is like making love in a hammock - a happy experience but one of uncertain duration.”
“The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes.”
“To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.”
“Human rights are inscribed in the hearts of people; they were there long before lawmakers drafted their first proclamation.”

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