"Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself."

-- Alwin Nikolais

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“We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world's wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth..”

Source : Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.214, Simon and Schuster
“Without the word dream, or the concept dream, and without the word blue and the emotions, I would have been really limited in the things I've written and performed.”
“Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration.”
“Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.”
“I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.”
“Do you remember the tsar? Well, Iâ€˜m like a tsar.”
“The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.”

Source : "New Outlook" Journal, April 1977.

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