"Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

“They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.”

Source : Dore Ashton (1976). “A Critical Study of Philip Guston”, p.1, Univ of California Press
“I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!”
“Tony Blair is a decent man who genuinely thinks what he is doing is justified. But when he sees men such as George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld smirking and boasting as they announce their Shock and Awe offensive, we hope he understands why we believe we have been dragged into something we should have been fighting tooth and nail to stop.”
“The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.”

Source : "R.V.W.: A Biography of Ralph Vaughan Williams". Book by Ursula Vaughan Williams, p. 243, letter to Lord Kennet (1941), 1964.
“I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years.”
“What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.”

Source : Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books
“You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.”

Source : James C. Hunter (2008). “The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership”, p.32, Crown Business

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