"We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think that it should be any different in mid-North America 20th century? And we decided then that our work would center around that sort of utilitarian pottery, and that's what I've done ever since."

-- Warren MacKenzie

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“We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.”
“I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.”
“Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.”
“As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.”
“Sometimes that's a lot to ask, so I'm not going to pressure them into being at a certain stage. As a coach and a teacher I learned a long time ago you've got to bring them along, and then when they're ready they'll show what they can do. You push, you prod, you pat and you do the other things that everybody does in teaching, and it's amazing how our guys over the years have kind of stepped forward and picked up and filled that void.”
“Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.”
“A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.”
“The most fruitful and natural exercise for our minds is, in my opinion, conversation.”

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