"There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done."

-- Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, and T.I. - dudes that went all out on the track. My first songs were energetic because I liked their energy.”
“Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.”
“The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.”
“Living for today will bring about dying for today. You can't just think 'I'm going to die anyway', because that's what's stopping us from moving forward.”
“Those who canâ€™t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.”
“The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.”

Source : Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “A theology of liberation: history, politics, and salvation”
“Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.”
“Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessityâ€¦It is a part of nature.”

Source : 'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 1, ch. 2, 4

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