"Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along."

-- Carl Sagan

#Atheist Quotes #Ocean Quotes #Dedication Quotes

“Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.”
“When I was 13 or 14, I took seven months off from touring. I did a lot of weekend gigs in Louisiana. We have fairs and festivals every weekend. But I took seven months off. That's when I really started digging deep. I wrote a couple songs that year that I still play every now and then for people.”
“The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment. A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.”
“You don't have to be inspired by comedians. You have to be inspired by things that are real, whether it's music, comedy...a movie - that should inspire you.”
“English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.”
“I don't know if you saw the parting of the Red Sea with the chariots on the horses, I did stuff like that.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outrÃ© artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.”
“It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner or later with its purpose, must indeed be animate with a soul, must have been breathed upon by the spirit and must breathe in turn that spirit.”

Source : Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.92, University of Chicago Press

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