"Existence as entirety remains beyond any one meaning and it is the conscious presence of humanness in the world inasmuch as this is nonmeaning, having nothing to do other than be what it is, no longer able to go beyond itself or give itself some kind of meaning through action."

-- Georges Bataille

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“Do I think I'm under-educated? Academically, absolutely. I never took any exams, no O- or A-levels.”
“Stories matter. Many stories matter.”

Source : "The danger of a single story". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.
“Our senses are never more awakened to our need for His love than when our need is most exposed.”
“Somewhere in the arrangement of this world there seems to be a great concern about giving us delight, which shows that, in the universe, over and above the meaning of matter and forces, there is a message conveyed through the magic touch of personality. ... Is it merely because the rose is round and pink that it gives me more satisfaction than the gold which could buy me the necessities of life, or any number of slaves. ... Somehow we feel that through a rose the language of love reached our hearts.”
“I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.”
“No, I don't like recording. It's a bore.”
“The creative man with an insight into human nature, with the artistry to touch and move people, will succeed. Without them he will fail.”
“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities.”

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