"Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world."

-- Joan Konner

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“But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over.”

Source : John Trumbull, “M'Fingal - Canto I”
“Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.”
“I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject ...”
“But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.”

Source : George Saintsbury (2012). “The English Novel”, p.162, tredition
“I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.”
“In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing”
“In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.”

Source : Giorgio Vasari, George Bull (1978). “Artists of the Renaissance: a selection from Lives of the artists”, Viking Pr
“The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.”

Source : Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage

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