"Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state."

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John Locke

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“The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for representation forms a leitmotif in the history of art. Confounding subject and object, it undermines the speaking position of the individual woman artist by generalizing her. Denied her individuality, she is displaced from being a producer and becomes instead a sign for male creativity.”

Source : Whitney Chadwick (2007). “Women, Art, and Society”
“I feel like the inspiration is that I've managed to change my songwriting over the past couple of years and also production styles. I could get a sense of what really worked well, and I think this sound developed naturally. That's what happens when you're doing it all the time and changing as a person. Some songs were really dark, and others were more psychedelic. It was useful to have that to figure out exactly what I wanted to do.”
“Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of Ã¦sthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment.”
“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.”
“Flight attendants all over the world saw 'Sex and the City.' Doesn't matter what country you are in. The flight attendants know Jack Berger.”

Source : "Ron Livingston: I'm on a Free Pass". Television Critics Association's press meeting, www.foxnews.com. July 26, 2006.
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes â€” The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs â€” The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore, And Yesterday, or Centuries before? The Feet, mechanical, go round â€” Of Ground, or Air, or Ought â€” A Wooden way Regardless grown, A Quartz contentment, like a stone â€” This is the Hour of Lead â€” Remembered, if outlived, As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow â€” First â€” Chill â€” then Stupor â€” then the letting go â€””
“I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.”
“Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.”

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