"Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it."

-- Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

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“Do we have anything in music that really wipes everything out? That just cleans everything away?”

Source : Morton Feldman (2006). “Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987”
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
“Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.”
“Okay," I said. "I'd hoped to avoid this, but... Bill, I rescind your invitation into my house." Bill began walking backward to the door, a helpless look on his face, and my brush still in his hand. Eric grinned at him triumphantly. "Eric," I said, and his smile faded. "I rescind your invitation into my house." And backward he went, out my door and off my porch. The door slammed shut behind (or maybe in front of?) them.”
“Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats.”
“America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor.”
“It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!”
“Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!”

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