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“My whole career I've been interested by the distinction between an emotional and an intellectual response to an artwork.”
Source : "Sculptures that engage your heart - and expand your mind". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 3, 2011.
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“Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.”
Source : Eleanor Farjeon (2013). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”, p.181, Random House
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“Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.”
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“I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.”
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“If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to live more lightly upon the Earth while experiencing a higher quality of life?”
Source : Duane Elgin (2010). “Voluntary Simplicity Second Revised Edition: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich”, p.3, Harper Collins
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“As we drove uptown, I spotted a Kmart on a corner,with its familiar red sign.I cleared my throat."Wait. Can we stop for a minute?" "What for?" "Just - I need a few things." He looked irritated, but pulled into a metered space. "We don't really have time to go shopping." I glared at him."yeah, excuse me for being so frivolous. You have your suitcase all packed already; I dont even have clean underwear.I'll be right back.”
Source : L.A. Weatherly (2010). “Angel: The Angel Trilogy”, p.76, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing.Â… The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.”
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“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.”