"I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober."

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Gertrude Stein

#Drunk Quotes #Done Quotes #Sober Quotes

“If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.”
“Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.”

Source : James D. Watson (1970). “Molecular Biology of the Gene”
“I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.”
“Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?”
“I mean, there is a certain element that, when you read the bad press about yourself and post it on the web-site, takes the pressure off.”

Source : OndaRock Interview, June 01, 2006.
“If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who are involved in genuine, laborious, demanding, transrational spiritual practice? This is very difficult, because both markets are referred to as "spiritual," but these two camps really don't get along very well-one is mostly translative, the other is mostly transformative, and they generally disapprove of each other-so how do you put them into one magazine without alienating them both?”
“Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but... we still have you, and you still have us.”

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