"The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth."

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Source : Twitter post from Jan 31, 2017

Alfred North Whitehead

#Earth Quotes #Rise Above Quotes

“The human race will have no respite from evils until those who are really philosophers acquire political power or until, through some divine dispensation, those who rule and have political authority in the cities become real philosophers.”
“One measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
“Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.”
“Where is automatism in the work of Chirico or Tanguy? Even Dali had to renounce it in order to be able to organize the space of the canvas according to the combined laws of dreams and pictorial aesthetics.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.”

Source : Anton Seidl (2014). “On Conducting”, p.102, Parrot Press
“I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots.”
“But most of all, I learned that itâ€™s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when thereâ€™s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.”
“Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.342, U of Nebraska Press

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