"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real.”
“We never had any silk sheets in our family...”

Source : "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 96), 1975.
“I want to be great at what I do. I don't want to be just an average rapper.”
“God is not dead-He is merely unemployed...”

Source : "The Pogo Poop Book". Book by Walt Kelly, 1966.
“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.”

Source : Calvin Trillin (1988). “If you can't say something nice”, Penguin Group USA
“Acting is not a genteel profession. Actors used to be buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart. Those people's performances so troubled the onlookers that they feared their ghosts. An awesome compliment. Those players moved the audience not such that they were admitted to a school, or received a complimentary review, but such that the audience feared for their soul. Now that seems to me something to aim for.”
“Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.”
“[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal”

Source : Source: www.etonline.com

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