"Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track."

-- Emile Zola

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“Its very pulse, if I may use the word, was like no other clock. It did not mark the flight of every moment with a gentle second stroke, as though it would check old Time, and have him stay his pace in pity, but measured it with one sledge-hammer beat, as if its business were to crush the seconds as they came trooping on, and remorselessly to clear a path before the Day of Judgment.”
“The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.”
“London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“As I traveled around the country, I met hundreds if not thousands of people who want to change the country. And you've got, now, 1,900 Bernie delegates who are now going back to their communities in 50 states.”

Source : "A Look At Where Bernie Sanders' Movement Goes From Here". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 30, 2016.
“Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.”
“Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.”

Source : 'The Entertainer' (1957) no. 7
“Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.”
“Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.”

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