"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."

-- Ezra Pound

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“We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.”
“If you convey God's words to someone only with the intention to utilize him in some way, you will never be able to establish the standard of the "Way." Give what you have to others with your sincere heart.”

Source : "The Way of God's Will" by Sun Myung Moon, (Chapter 3-3 Witnessing), 1980.
“I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.”
“One of the things I'm proud of is my ability to change directions if something's not working.”
“Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.”
“I've always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in 'Science of Sleep' with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D.”
“The chief use of servants is the evidence they afford of the master's ability to pay.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THORSTEIN VEBLEN Ultimate Collection: 8 Books & 50+ Business Essays and Articles in Warfare and Economics: The Theory of the Leisure Class, The Theory of Business Enterprise, The Higher Learning In America, Panem et Circenses, The Vested Interests and the Common Man, The Use of Loan Credit in Business…”, p.44, e-artnow
“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.”

Source : "Afropolitan Author Talks Fractured Family Ties in ‘Ghana Must Go’". Interview with Patrice Peck, www.ebony.com. May 2, 2013.

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