"In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension."

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Source : Horatio Greenough, Harold A. Small (1947). “Form and Function: Remarks on Art, Design, and Architecture”, p.75, Univ of California Press

Horatio Greenough

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“There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.”
“Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.”
“Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.”
“I also have experience working with American producer Roger Corman who knows a lot of secrets in making movies look bigger than their budget.”
“The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.”
“Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger”
“It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you.”
“Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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