"Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery."

-- Edward Everett

#Lying Quotes #Blessed Quotes #California Quotes

“The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.”
“Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.”
“We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.”

Source : H. Emilie Cady (2016). “The Collected Works of H. Emilie Cady: Spiritual Guidance Books & New Thought Classics: Lessons In Truth - Practical Christianity Course + How I Used Truth & God + A Present Help”, p.11, e-artnow
“Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.”

Source : Interview with Divina Infusino, American Way Magazine, June 15, 1995.
“Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.”
“The truth has a way of changing people's plans.”
“Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time.”

Source : "Hot Tracks: Robin Thicke". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November 2013.
“I'd like to just work - steadily work - and do parts that I enjoy doing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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