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“To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.”
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“From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.”
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“Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.”
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“Sometimes, to ensure that a talented individual will work for you, or will stay working with you, you need to be flexible. Money is not always the great motivator here. Talented people want a good salary, of course, but surprisingly often they are more attracted to new opportunities and challenges.”
Source : Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.97, Penguin
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“Exhibitions of minority art are often intended to make the minority itself more aware of its collective experience. Reinforcing the common memory of miseries and triumphs will, it is expected, strengthen the unity of the group and its determination to achieve a better future. But emphasizing shared experience as opposed to the artist's consciousness of self (which includes his personal and unshared experience of masterpieces) brings to the fore the tension in the individual artist between being an artist and being a minority artist.”
Source : "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Being Outside", p. 273, 1985.
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“For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.”
Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing
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“I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.”
Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
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“Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.”
