"If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself."

-- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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“In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.”
“We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I tend not to think that anything I happen to be reporting on in my films is special. Meaning that people are always saying to me, 'you must love New York, you have it in all your films.' But mostly it's because I know New York, and I know Brooklyn at this time. I know the lives there, because I have lived in them.”
“You can have more than one home. You can carry your roots with you, and decide where they grow.”

Source : "All along the watchtower" by Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.
“[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.”
“Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both ... different. In spelling.”
“For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.”

Source : "LGBT Youth Need Our Voices to Stand Up to Bullying" by Rep. Linda Sanchez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 11, 2014.
“Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later proved to be groundless; times such as these are hard for scientists-days of leaden gray skies bringing with them a miserable sense of oppression and inadequacy.”

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