"All new ideas pass through three stages: first they are dismissed as nonsense, then they are rejected as being against religion and finally they are acknowledged as the truth, with the proviso from the initial opponents that they knew it all along."

-- Karl Ernst von Baer

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“There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.”
“Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.”
“Wow, I do have all day and I get to choose.”
“I am crazy for dessert. I eat everything. No one should be denied anything... just don't eat the whole thing.”
“Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners.”
“People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.”

Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.
“But if we are truly happy inside, then age brings with it a maturity, a depth, and a power that only magnifies our radiance.”
“Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.”

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