"Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others."

-- Ronald Rolheiser

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“A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.”
“The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.”

Source : Carolyn M. Rodgers (1975). “How I got ovah: new and selected poems”
“If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”
“Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.”
“The profit of the one is the profit of the other.”
“Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff.”

Source : Interview with Cindy Lynn Speer and Wiley Saichek, www.bookreporter.com. October 8, 2004.
“One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.”
“There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.”

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