"No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly.""

-- Edmund Snow Carpenter

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“There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.”
“We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.”
“I had no administrative function at the New Yorker. I am what we used to call in construction back in Kansas City where I grew up "a dog-ass subcontractor."”
“There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.”

Source : 1899 Boy Life on the Prairie,'Melons and Early Frost'.
“I get moments where you slide and there's an adrenaline shoot, but the moment you scare yourself is the moment you give up. I think what probably scares me more, is that you're involved in something that is quite surreal and you have to be able to bring yourself back down to earth and that's where when you come home and your kids are just excited to have daddy home and tell you about their day, that's one of the greatest things to bring you back down to earth.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Success is a project that's always under construction.”
“That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.”

Source : Alfred Sutro (1906). “The Price of Money: A Play in Four Acts”
“While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.”

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