"The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up."

-- Barbara Jordan

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“Skating alone is an art. Doing it on a substance? I don't know. That's got to be tough.”
“Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.”
“You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.”
“Liberal economists conceive of societies as black boxes connected by exchange rates; as long as exchange rates are correct, what goes on inside the black box is regarded as not very important.”

Source : "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.
“First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. Secondly, we believe in a plurality of Gods. Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages to come, through development, through enlargement, through purification until perfection is attained, man at last may become like God - a God.”
“Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.”
“Make your own path in life when there is none!”
“Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.”

Source : 'Masters and Men' (1923) 'Ministers of State'

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