"Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice."

-- Owen Feltham

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“We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.”
“I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.”
“As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when they should be using that same energy getting rid of the military completely.”
“There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken.”

Source : "Fashion and creativity". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.
“Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.”
“Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.”
“I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.”

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