"Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport."

-- William Finnegan

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“Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance.”
“President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It ***** the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today.”

Source : "Put a Face on It" by Anna Deavere Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.
“I saw behind me those who had gone, and before me those who are to come. I looked back and saw my father, and his father, and all our fathers, and in front to see my son, and his son, and the sons upon sons beyond. And their eyes were my eyes.”

Source : RICHARD LLEWELLYN (1967). “HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY”
“Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.”

Source : "Modern Museum Reopens With New Wings" by Richard F. Shepard, www.nytimes.com. May 26, 1964.
“The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.”
“The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.”
“Iâ€™m not very creativeâ€ doesnâ€™t work. Thereâ€™s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who donâ€™t. Unused creativity doesnâ€™t just disappear. It lives within us until itâ€™s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.”
“To improve at chess you should in the first instance study the endgame.”

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