"A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern."

-- Nelson Shanks

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“The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.48, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values: love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness.”
“It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.”
“With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.”

Source : Tim Parks (2012). “Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing”, p.13, Rodale
“Contouring is like my favorite thing ever because you can get cheekbones even if you don't have them.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Use book value as a starting point to try and establish the value of the enterprise.”
“I am delighted that I have found a new reaction to demonstrate even to the blind the structure of the interstitial stroma of the cerebral cortex. I let the silver nitrate react with pieces of brain hardened in potassium dichromate. I have already obtained magnificent results and hope to do even better in the future.”
“Many people asked me to convert. I said my religious convictions remain. I am fighting the wrongs within my own community. And if I decide to convert I will lose the right to fight.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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