"The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition."

-- Albert Camus

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“85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.”
“We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.”
“Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.”

Source : Kimon Nicolaïdes (1990). “The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I wanted to have a Vanna White look alike contest here, the only problem was, most of the girls who showed up look like Betty White.”
“The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence, over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.”
“To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.”
“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.”

Source : Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”
“That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.”

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