"Everyone knows of great projects that were too dependent on a charismatic individual, or simply too expensive to be replicated."

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Source : "How to spread the word about radical ideas" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2007.

Geoff Mulgan

#Individual Quotes #Projects Quotes #Charismatic Quotes

“The poems in Helena Mesa’s virtuosic first book, Horse Dance Underwater, run with such speed, verve, and alacrity they leave you breathless, exhilarated, and transformed as if the purest kind of song had lifted you into the air. By this quickness of language finding lyric speech, Mesa’s poems remind us of art’s joyous and ecstatic effects.”
“Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.”
“The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims... but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.”
“Your body is the child of the soul. you must nourish and train that child.”
“I am still the same girl. The only difference that success has brought about is the love and affection of the people.”
“I write songs about fat girls and about men who run off to Mexico.”
“Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.”
“I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.121, Petrarca Press

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