"The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true."

-- Jamaica Kincaid

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“The musical scale is a convention which circumscribes the area of potentiality and permits construction within those limits in its own particular symmetry.”

Source : Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.132, Pendragon Press
“I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.”

Source : "TCM Film Fest: Shirley MacLaine Serves Up Barbs and Valentines" by Chris Willman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 30, 2015.
“People confuse friendship and relaxation. It's incredibly important to be relaxed - you don't have a chance if you're not relaxed. So I try very hard to relax any kind of tension. But friendship is different.”
“I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.”
“Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1959). “Please Don't Eat the Daisies”
“I hope telling the story of how I went from being a single mom to serving in the Texas State Senate to running for governor will remind others that with the right leadership in government, where you start has nothing to do with how far you go.”
“In order to change a color it is enough to change the color of its background.”
“One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.”

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