"I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it."

-- Tony Kushner

#Dream Quotes #Believe Quotes #School Quotes

“One of my favorite sketches, and a popular comedy formula, is to put someone with a mental handicap in some kind of unlikely situation. For example: The retarded gynecologist, the retarded Jesus, the retarded Osama Bin Laden. It works. It's funny. Inappropriate? I dunno. I feel like I'm a pretty good judge of what crosses the line of good taste being that I am retarded. Socially perhaps, but severly retarded.”
“I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate.”
“What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart.”

Source : Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur (Diversion Classics)”, p.398, Diversion Books
“Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.”
“I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.”

Source : "Sir Alan Will See You Now". Interview with Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2009.
“All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others. We are having a good time here. But hope all will be revealed soon.”
“The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is something dynamically produced in the act of representation and reception and already subject to the grids of meaning imposed on it by culture, history, language, and so forth.”
“People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.”

Source : "Tools for Conviviality" by Ivan Illich, (p. 10), 1973.

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