"Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness."

-- Pope Francis

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“Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
“Do you know you couldn't get a date with a $20 bill taped to your forehead?”
“I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, 'My kid could do this,' and 'We donâ€™t get it. Whatâ€™s modern art? Blah, blah, blah.' And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.”

Source : "Just an Artist". Interview with Susan Sollins, art21.org. July 2008.
“Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.”
“I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.”
“Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle”

Source : Louis Althusser (2001). “Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.8, NYU Press
“The world is a very dangerous place. But the world is not too dangerous of a place for the United States of America provided we act according to our principles, provided we act intelligently.”
“I have nothing against alÑoÐ½ol, there is nothing I can do to tell people not to do it. I don't tell people not to, I just tell people to be wise about it. If you want to do it go ahead, if you don't go ahead. Nothing makes you cooler, nothing makes you lamer. You're just a normal person if you don't want to do it.”

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