"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."

-- Robert Moog

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“At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.”

Source : Paul Caponigro (2002). “New England Days”, p.38, David R. Godine Publisher
“The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.”
“Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.”
“When everything is said and done there is nothing left to do or say.”
“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.”
“Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.”
“Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.”
“Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.”

Source : "Did 9/11 Make Us Morally 'Better'?" by Miroslav Volf, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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