"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake."

-- Josiah Strong

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“There are no bad people, only badly loved people.”
“I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.”
“Some bands write and it is just the singer and the guitarist that do it all and then the rest of the band follows their vision. This is cool, and as you know I have been part of a few amazing bands that did this and I am not complaining.”
“[X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).”
“All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.”

Source : Rex Brandt (1977). “Watercolor techniques and methods: the twenty basic lessons adapted from The winning ways of watercolor for easy student and studio use”
“The point isnâ€™t to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.”
“They tell me I must wade into waters, where I will soon drown. Before I march in, I leave this on the shore for you. I pray you find it, sister, so you will know what was in my heart as I went under.”
“All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.”

Source : Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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