"What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?"

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Source : "Kindergarten Chats: (revised 1918) and Other Writings". Book by Louis Sullivan, Ch. 36: Another City, 1947.

Louis Sullivan

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“I cannot sell my soul in order to participate with Nancy Pelosi or Carole Migden or any of them. I can't do it.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“I just think make hay while the sun shines really when you're an actor. When the opportunities present themselves you just better take them, otherwise you just don't know.”
“Youâ€™ll be all right. Youâ€™re strong. I know youâ€™ll be okay because I like you and you canâ€™t like someone who doesnâ€™t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I donâ€™t like because they hate themselves so much they wonâ€™t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. Iâ€™ll miss you. And I know youâ€™ll be okay.”
“Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.”

Source : My Louisiana Sky, www.imdb.com. 2001.
“Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently ... It is that which feels & discovers what is, the REAL which we see not, which exists not for our senses... Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things... Imagination too shows what is ... Hence she is or should be especially cultivated by the truly Scientific, those who wish to enter into the worlds around us!”
“I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.”
“Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.”
“Silence is the best answer to a fool.”

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