"But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end."

-- Ding Ling

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“If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.”
“Left Behind takes what to some people may be unbelievable predictions from the Bible and shows how they might play out. It makes the events of biblical prophecy understandable and thus believable.”
“I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.”
“When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.”

Source : "Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks Talk SAVING MR. BANKS, Bringing the Essence of Their Characters to the Screen, and How P.L. Travers Would Have Reacted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.
“In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind-not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madÃ©casses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written.”

Source : "Ravel: Man and Musician". Book by Arbie Orenstein, p. 126, 1975.
“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.”
“Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.”
“Leaders volunteer to go first into danger. Their willingness to sacrifice for us is the reason we're inspired to follow.”

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