"I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life."

-- Anatole France

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“From the explanatory notes that Willson wrote to accompany his symphony, A Symphony of San Francisco,: "Generally speaking, the first movement is intended to convey pioneer courage, loyalty, strength of purpose and freedom." The trumpet motive in the closing Allegro "is a call of defiance to the very elements themselves that had the temerity to dispute the spiritual strength and courage of the golden city of the West."”
“I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.”
“I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government,”

Source : "Senators target Facebook co-founder for giving up citizenship, seek to impose taxes", www.foxnews.com. May 17, 2012.
“Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.”
“I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.”
“To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.”
“Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art”

Source : "The Auteur vs. the Committee" by Randall Steoss, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2011.
“The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem”

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