"To be taught to readâ€”what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speakâ€”but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to thinkâ€”nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true."

-- John Ruskin

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“Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.”
“We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.”

Source : "MoveOn as an Instrument of the People". Interview with Terrence McNally, www.alternet.org. June 24, 2004.
“Music is the human treatment of sounds.”
“I'm hunting for little Mexican girls.”
“John [Lennon] as a singer - the way he sings on "Twist and Shout" and the way he sings on "Strawberry Fields Forever" - is a very odd voice, in the sense that it seems to be celebrating but almost mourning at the same time. There's a quality of mourning to his voice, which is very enigmatic.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“But what goes on in my life outside of the game should be my business.”
“Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

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