"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

-- Winston Churchill

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“Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to unity, harmony, serenity - an end to his alienation from nature. All these arts of remote times or strange cultures either give or suggest to the modern artist forms which he can adapt to his needs, the elements of a new iconography.”
“The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.”

Source : John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.68, David C Cook
“I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.”
“Man is the only animal to borrow tools.”
“I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.”
“The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.”
“For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.”

Source : "Hot Tracks: Gary Clark Jr". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. December 2012.
“I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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