"Man, not the earth, makes civilization."

-- Ariel Durant

#Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.”

Source : "Caio Fonseca Comes Out Of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.
“We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God.”
“The hallmark of intelligence is not whether one believes in God or not, but the quality of the processes that underlie oneâ€™s beliefs.”
“Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.”

Source : "I jest you not: how David Foster Wallace changed my life" by Matthew Hammett Knott, www.indiewire.com. January 17, 2012.
“A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ...”

Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2015). “The Last Man”, p.583, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability in our nation.”
“Truth comes to us mediated by human love.”
“The first time I went over to [my director's] house, he said to me, This is a very strange play. I was pleased that he reminded me of that. [He] understands the play [VENUS] intellectually and emotionally and the humor, the funny bone.”

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