"At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation."

-- Julia Cameron

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“Iâ€™m a serious-minded and intense little devil â€“ terribly gauche and so tense that I donâ€™t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldnâ€™t tolerate myself.”
“The rest of the world needs the US economy and financial system to recover in order for it to revive. We remain at the center of global economic activity with financial and trade ties to every region of the globe.”

Source : "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.
“To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.”
“I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'”
“How many more people have to die or be afraid or be injured in Chelsea, New York, Erin, for us to wake up?”
“Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.”
“Willis Rodney Whitney ... once compared scientific research to a bridge being constructed by a builder who was fascinated by the construction problems involved. Basic research, he suggested, is such a bridge built wherever it strikes the builder's fancy-wherever the construction problems seem to him to be most challenging. Applied research, on the other hand, is a bridge built where people are waiting to get across the river. The challenge to the builder's ingenuity and skill, Whitney pointed out, can be as great in one case as the other.”
“Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we're abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.”

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