"Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more obscure the likelihood you ever will. After enough time passes, the idea of another way of life grows even more misty."

-- Jerry Stahl

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“When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.”
“When dissonance is present, in addition to trying to reduce it, the person will actively avoid situations and information which would likely increase the dissonance.”

Source : Leon Festinger (1962). “A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance”, p.3, Stanford University Press
“I believe that we can accomplish any object that we make up our minds to, and no boy or girl ought to sit down and say, because they cannot do as well as somebody else, that they will not do anything. God has given to some people ten talents; to others, he has given one; but they who improve the one talent will live to see the day when they will far outshine those who have ten talents but fail to improve them.”
“I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.”
“Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.”
“Everybody has their days of misfortune.”
“All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.”
“In some century to come, when the school children will whistle popular tunes in quarter-tones--when the diatonic scale will be as obsolete as the pentatonic is now--perhaps then these borderland experiences may be both easily expressed and readily recognized. But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense”

Source : Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.88, 1st World Publishing

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