"No painting is more replete than Mondrian's."

-- Samuel Beckett

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“I want someone who is open-minded, dedicated to whatever she is doing and isn't afraid to say I love you. As for looks, she shouldn't have three heads. I want a regular human being.”
“On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.”
“Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.”
“Freedom from indoctrination ought to be a basic human right for all children.”

Source : "Religion and schools don't mix" by Björn Ulvaeus, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2009.
“I think capitalism will survive, because no attractive alternatives exist now”
“If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.”
“There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.”
“I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.”

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