"I'm especially interested in the music of John Cage.. ..I would like to do some experimenting with the relationship between his freeform sound and free-form art."

-- Jasper Johns

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“Global warming is not a threat. But environmentalism's response to it is....Even if global warming is a fact, the free citizens of an industrial civilization will have no great difficulty in coping with it-that is, of course, if their ability to use energy and to produce is not crippled by the environmental movement and by government controls otherwise inspired.”
“In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.”
“There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.”
“Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.”
“It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.”
“In trying to explain our political paralysis, analysts cite President Obama's tactical missteps, the obstinacy of congressional Republicans, rising partisanship in Washington, and the Senate filibuster, which has devolved into a super-majority threshold for important legislation. These are large factors to be sure, but that list neglects what may be the biggest culprit of all: the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of the public at large.”
“Showing kindness to others is one of the nicest things we can do for ourselves.”

Source : Janette Oke (1988). “The Father Who Calls”, Bethany House Pub

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