"A poet is a painter of the soul."

-- Isaac D'Israeli

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“The context for music is varied and profound. If their fantasy is to be awakened-so that their sounds may be incisive or ravishing-then the menagerie of saints and dragons must be faithfully recalled.”
“When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.”
“I don't care what the public wants, I'm going to give it what it needs!”
“Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.”
“I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.”
“We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.”
“This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.”
“To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.”

Source : Wendell Lewis Willkie (1943). “One World”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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