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-- Olavo Bilac

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“Sculpture is a parable in three dimensions, a symbol of a spiritual experience, and a means of conveying truth by concentrating its essence into visible form. ... It must be the reflection of the artist who creates it and of the era in which he lives, not an echo or a memory of other days and other ways.”

Source : Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”
“The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.”
“The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.”
“Love is love. It is God-given, and a sacrament. It is not for any man to judge.”

Source : Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
“Those who make pictures of the Savior, who is God as well as man in one inseparable person, either limit the incomprehensible Godhead to the bounds of created flesh, or confound his two natures like Eutyches, or separate them, like Nestorius, or deny his Godhead, like Arius; and those who worship such a picture are guilty of the same heresy and blasphemy.”

Source : Philip Schaff (1885). “The History of the Christian Church (Complete)”, p.3126, Library of Alexandria
“We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.”
“Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.”

Source : Christopher Nolan, Jonah Nolan (2010). “Inception: The Shooting Script”, p.14, Insight Editions
“If your job is not making a difference in this world, by all means, get out there and find something else ... Youâ€™ll find a sense of making a difference through your work if you simply look for it.”

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