"But we must admit the possibility that continued investigation and experience will bring us ever nearer to that solemn moment, when the first man will rise from earth by means of wings, if only for a few seconds, and mark that historical moment which heralds the inauguration of a new era in our civilization."

-- Otto Lilienthal

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“Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.”
“How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.”

Source : Athol Fugard (1983). “Notebooks, 1960-1977”
“One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”
“Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.”
“Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.”
“To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.”
“I think that the agriculture system in general is rooted in racism - consider that historically black labor on plantations was the backbone of the economy. These workers didn't reap the benefit of that system.”
“The movement of Pakistan which the Quaid-e-Azam launched was ethical in inspiration and ideological in content. The story of this movement is a story of the ideals of equality, fraternity and social and economic justice struggling against the forces of domination, exploitation, intolerance and tyranny.”

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