"Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis."

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Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.

David Maraniss

#Cuban Missile Crisis Quotes #October Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Poor is the new black. So on this film [The Land], there are poor black people, but there are also poor Latinos, and poor white people as well.”
“The only reason people work for airlines is because the Nazi party is no longer hiring.”
“All bores me in the world of facts, I see an end, a limit to all things and my heart thirsts for the infinite and for eternity.”

Source : "Voicing our visions, - Writings by women artists" edited by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York, 1991.
“Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
“Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own. When one becomes spiritual, the ego vanishes gradually on its own. A tree laden with fruits always bends low. Humility is a sign of greatness.”
“All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.”
“the mad have a grace all their own”
“Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.”

Source : "East Asia: the Great Tradition". Book by Albert M. Craig and Edwin O. Reischauer, p. 435, 1960.

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