"The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife."

-- Lord Acton

#Rewards Quotes #Release Quotes #Strife Quotes

“Last I heard, I was being traded to Washington for Monica Lewinsky.”
“The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds.”
“I'm a normal teen-ager except for my size.”
“If you find an idea without form, please let me know because I would love to take a picture of it.”

Source : Vik Muniz, Charles Stainback, Mark Alice Durant (1998). “Vik Muniz: seeing is believing”
“Each person has a literature inside them. But when people lose language, when they have to experiment with putting their thoughts together on the spot-that's what I love most. That's where character lives.”
“I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.”
“When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.”
“We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.”

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