"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."

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Source : Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

Christopher Morley

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“We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises.”
“Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.”

Source : Charlie Rose interview, November 14, 2001.
“Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.”
“Beauty without intelligence, is a masterpiece painted on a napkin.”
“There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.”
“I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.”
“It's not about the body; you are consciousness. That's what you are. Your consciousness is already out of your body. You don't need to get out of your body, you just need to get into your consciousness.”
“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.”

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