"My responsibility is to truth and beauty."

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Source : "Connie Chung Tonight", www.cnn.com. October 2, 2002.

Amiri Baraka

#Responsibility Quotes #Truth And Beauty Quotes

“Science is about the process; it's not about the conclusion.”
“How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind.”
“I don't have any kids. Well, at least none I know about.”
“The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.”
“The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.”

Source : Josef Von Sternberg (1988). “Fun in a Chinese Laundry”
“I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.”
“It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.”

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