"One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it."

-- Ken Gillespie

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“For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.”
“Study what you love, and youll never have to work a day in your life. Itll be one great adventure.”
“Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.”
“Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.”

Source : Alan Bullock (1964). “Hitler, a study in tyranny”, Harpercollins College Div
“I think there are some players born to play ball.”
“The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.”
“Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought.”

Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.22, Rowman & Littlefield
“Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.”

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