"Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out."

-- Alain de Botton

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“A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.”
“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”
“The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis.”
“The Gods have a lesson that tells you to build and destroy and that's the cycle of life. Things have to be destroyed and then it has to be rebuilt. I think rap always go through cycles where it appears that it's destroying itself but it's actually purging itself and after it purges itself it comes into another state of being.”
“Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.”

Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.
“A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them.”
“Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.”
“Even in dreams, you could not fall forever.”

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