"People tend to sit where there are places to sit"

-- William H. Whyte

“In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?”
“In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a human concept. From the hermetic point of view, one type of being has to bring forth positive influences, whereas another type has to bring forth negative influences. In an astral respect these beings are the tools of the effects on our physical world. They are also the cause of all effects in the astral body of every human being, whether they are initiated or not.”
“About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.”
“We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.”

Source : Carl Mydans, Shelley Smith Mydans (1968). “The violent peace”
“Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.”
“Country music has been empowering to women. Women invented it - it was women singing to their children that built country music. The people making country music today might not even know that it all started with a midwife. But it's true, it really did. That's where Michael learned to shake it the way he did. It wasn't from old Papa Jackson, I'll tell you that.”
“An artist is a person who lives in the triangle which remains after the angle which we may call common sense has been removed from this four-cornered world.”

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