"Think about it: Look at the strides of awareness and treatment and tests that women have had with breast cancer, that the gay community has had with AIDS, because they're active and they talk about it."

-- Herbie Mann

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“You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.”
“Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to.”
“You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.”

Source : "Lucas Samaras: Father Of The Selfies". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 7, 2014.
“I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!'”
“One night is awaiting us all, and the way of death must be trodden once. [Lat., Omnes una manet nox, Et calcanda semel via leti.]”
“If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'”
“Those who think all religions are the same look at the wrappings instead of the content.”
“The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity.”

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