"At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying whole wide world."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

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“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 12, 2013
“My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individualsÂ positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is a vocation rooted in hopefulness. As teachers we believe that learning is possible, that nothing can keep an open mind from seeking after knowledge and finding a way to know.”

Source : bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.14, Routledge
“On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.”
“We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
“My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.”
“Every philharmonic orchestra merely interprets the composer. My goal was to create new music by that composer. In doing so, I wanted to find the painter's creative center and become familiar with it, so that I could see through his eyes how his paintings came about and, of course, see the new picture I was painting through his eyes - before I even painted it.”
“A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." â€”WORDSWORTH.”
“I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.”

Source : "Dispatch From Siberia: The Ian Frazier Interview". Interview with David Coggins, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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