"Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid."

-- Maya Lin

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“There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.”

Source : Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.
“A majority of American citizens are now becoming skeptical of the claim that our carbon footprints, resulting from our use of fossil fuels, are going to lead to climatic calamities. But governments are not yet listening to the citizens.”
“I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.”

Source : "My favourite table" by Chloe Diski, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2002.
“The combination player thinks forward; he starts from the given position, and tries the forceful moves in his mind”

Source : Emanuel Lasker (1960). “Lasker's Manual of Chess”, p.167, Courier Corporation
“Every picture tells a story, don't it?”

Source : Song: Every Picture Tells a Story, Album: Every Picture Tells a Story, 1971
“If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.”
“As for the South, it is enough to say that perhaps eighty per cent. of her armies were neither slave-holders, nor had the remotest interest in the institution. No other proof, however, is needed than the undeniable fact that at any period of the war from its beginning to near its close the South could have saved slavery by simply laying down its arms and returning to the Union.”

Source : John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”
“We have a country that is $5 a gallon gas, $4 a gallon gas, we got unbearable unemployment and a federal government that is out of control. We have to take back this country and we've got to get off the sidelines and take it to President Obama.”

Source : "Tim Pawlenty Reacts to First 2012 Republican Presidential Debate". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2011.

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