"To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better."

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Source : Giuseppe Verdi, Hans Busch (1988). “Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised version) in letters and documents”, Oxford University Press, USA

Giuseppe Verdi

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“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.”

Source : "Eli Pariser: What Search Engines Are Hiding From Us". "KPBS Midday Edition" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. May 23, 2011.
“I'm conscious of competitive issues, but at the same time the recommendation they make is that we protect citizens by not adding to the overall tax burden of the province.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Watch yourself as though you were observing a Martian.”
“Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.”

Source : "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter still fighting long after boxing days pass" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011.
“If there's a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!”

Source : "Pete Seeger: How can I keep from singing?". Interview With Sarah van Gelder, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2014.
“Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.”

Source : Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster
“I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.”
“Neural science, which is the study of the brain, tells us that we have up to one billion brain cells with thousands of branches that communicate with each other much like a complex highway system. The more we attend to something, or the more we engage in certain behaviors, the more those particular cells communicate and the pathways between them deepen. This is how our values, our beliefs, and our motivations are actually formed.”

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