"Donâ€™t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art."

-- Duane Michals

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“First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.”

Source : Agnivesh's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2004.
“I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.”

Source : Source: prod.www.chiefs.clubs.nfl.com
“Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”
“Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions of freedom. The Soviet Union had the greatest mathematicians on earth, and plenty of sand, but without the institutions of freedom their brilliant mathematicians were not empowered to create those devices that are changing the world.”

Source : Michael Strong, John Mackey (2009). “Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World?s Problems”, p.60, John Wiley and Sons
“Control your fate or somebody else will”
“Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I'm coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.”
“Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.”
“The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.156, Univ of California Press

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