"All governments lie, but disaster lies in wait for countries whose officials smoke the same hashish they give out."

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Source : "In a Time of Torment, 1961-1967". Book by I. F. Stone, p. 317, 1967.

I. F. Stone

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“I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light.Â What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.”

Source : Patricia Cummings Loud, Louis I. Kahn, Duke University. Museum of Art (1989). “The Art Museums of Louis I. Kahn”, p.263, Duke University Press
“I'm a perfectionist, so it's hard for me to just accept that that I can't keep working until it's perfected. But I'm learning, I'm growing as a human in that way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Our normal human tendencies are distraction and dissipation. We begin one task, then get seduced by some other option, and lose our focus. We drift away from what is difficult and we know to be true, to what is comfortable and socially condoned.”
“Motion is tranquility.”
“My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.”
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
“I'm an athletic person. But I love my body because I know what it's been through to be what it is. And honestly I'm not going to change for someone that is depressed about their life.”

Source : "Gigi Hadid Responds to Being Body-Shamed on Instagram: 'I'm Not Going Anywhere'". www.glamour.com. December 2, 2015.
“My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.”

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