"What I didn't know at the time [of my scholarship] was that the ceramic class was not really a very good class. This was many years ago and should not reflect on the conditions at the Art Institute of Chicago to this day, but we didn't know anything and we started to learn about how to work with clay."

-- Warren MacKenzie

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“Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.”
“Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.”
“Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.”
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”

Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.234, Soft Skull Press
“There came to him an image of manâ€™s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all manâ€™s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all manâ€™s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.”
“Usually, I'm only sad when something sad happens. I am not a melancholic person. I like to live very much in the present. If I was an animal, I'd be a little cat. They like to live life.”
“People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.”
“I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.”

Source : Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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