"Who takes the blame: the leader who talks of poverty but lives in luxury, or the poor who choose a leader of that type?"

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Source : "I Learn". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1976.

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

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“Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.”

Source : "George Perle, a Composer and Theorist, Dies at 93" by Allan Kozinn, www.nytimes.com. January 24, 2009.
“Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.”
“In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them”
“Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.”
“Before one can correctly understand the work of the Holy Spirit, he must first of all know the Spirit himself. A frequent source of error and fanaticism about the work of the Holy Spirit is the attempt to study and understand His work without, first of all, coming to know Him as a person.”
“Every purchasing decision involves a trade-off between what I call fidelity and convenience. Fidelity is the total experience of something - how great the experience is. Convenience is how easy it is to get something. A live concert is a high fidelity way to experience music; an MP3 file is a high convenience way to experience music. Depending on the situation, one or the other is probably pretty appealing. What's not appealing is something that offers neither.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.”

Source : Philip Levine (2011). “New Selected Poems”, p.221, Knopf
“Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?”

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