"Becoming is superior to being."

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Source : Paul Klee, Will Grohmann (1985). “Paul Klee”, Harry N. Abrams

Paul Klee

#Becoming Quotes #Conformity Quotes #Non Conformity Quotes

“American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.”
“One: There is a low limit of weight [of about] 50 pounds beyond which it is impossible for an animal to fly. Two: The animal machine is far more effective than any we can hope to make. Three: The weight of any machine constructed for flying, including fuel and engineer, cannot be less than three or four hundred pounds. Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?”
“I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.”
“Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.”
“A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.”

Source : "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.
“Be kind to an old man.”
“I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.”

Source : FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Nov 14, 2013
“I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly...they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences - they're not interested in free markets.”

Source : "The West Should Fear the Growth of State Capitalism". Interview with James Quinn, www.telegraph.co.uk. July 10, 2010.

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