"I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War."

-- Mike Mansfield

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“Each childâ€™s story is worthy of telling. There shouldnâ€™t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.”
“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.”

Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.4, Image Continuum Press
“Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.”
“There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.”
“A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.”

Source : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.545, Northwestern University Press
“From the gardener's point of view, November can be the worst month to be faced: Nature is winding things down, the air is cold, skies are gray, but usually the final mark of punctuation to the year as yet to arrive - the snow; snow that covers all in the garden and marks a mind-set for the end of a year's activity. There is little to do outside except to wait for longer days in the new year and the joys of coming holidays.”
“It’s the feeling of total control. When you are properly trained, your body works hard — but when you move, you do not suffer. That’s the feeling I am looking for.”
“There is no point drumming up noise about a cause, if you are not willing to take a beating for it.”

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