"It is my conviction that the public always shows itself more honest in its spontaneity than do those who officially set themselves up as judges of works of art."

-- Igor Stravinsky

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“Labor is the divine law of our existence.”
“Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.”
“Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.”
“Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.”

Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “The Greatest Thing in the World: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.18, Lulu Press, Inc
“The way to stay popular as a quarterback in the NFL is never to play.”
“I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.”

Source : Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio
“even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.”
“There is no morally coherent difference between fur and other animal clothing, such as leather, wool, etc., just as there is no morally coherent distinction between meat and milk or eggs.”

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