"When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis."

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Source : Owen Barfield, Jeanne Clayton Hunter, Thomas Kranidas (1993). “A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction By Owen Barfield”, p.152, SUNY Press

Owen Barfield

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“My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way. She's proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I'm kind of taking up where she left off.”
“The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.”
“One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.”
“I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.”

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“people who understand grammar always have a keen sense of the ridiculous.”

Source : Mary Jane Holmes (1871). “The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World”, p.81
“No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy.”
“Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.”

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