"Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy."

-- Plato

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“Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.”

Source : Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.”

Source : George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.255, Cosimo, Inc.
“Stay close by the door, if you desire all beauty And leave aside sleep, if you wish to arrive And make of the spirit your first place of account To the beloved, whose lights shine as from gold All of them worship out of fear of the fire Ã¯Â¿Â½ And consider deliverance abundant good fortune - Or, so they may dwell in the gardens, and reach To the meadows of paradise, and there drink from its rivers Of gardens or fire I have no opinion I seek no exchange for my dearest love”
“The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.”
“Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.”

Source : "The Root of All Evil?". Documentary, January 2006.
“You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.”
“Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.”
“The present is an eternal now.”

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