"Freemasonry is an institution calculated to benefit mankind."

-- Andrew Jackson

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“Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.”
“Most people traffic in abstractions and generalizations because they are grossly incompetent at culturing their intuition or powers of evidency, refining it to grasp the Thisness (Haecceitas) of what is before them. Thinking is like a Stradivarius that has more potential variations in how it is played than any human can finitely perform or capture.”
“I live for art. I love entertaining people, making them smile and think. I love to know that a little piece of what they see, read or what they listen to is something that they can think about or see the world in a different way. Art is never-ending and Iâ€™d like to leave something that survives me when Iâ€™ll die.”
“The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.”

Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.33, Taylor & Francis
“The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from history.”

Source : Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”
“I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.”
“I thought I was making fifty dollars a week [at MGM], but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.”
“I don't know about ground rules; but I create the world that arrives with the characters or situation or voice in my head that instigates the piece, whatever form it may take.”

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