"Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it."

-- Tom Stoppard

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“I am originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana - mafia.”
“Care shouldn't start in the emergency room.”
“Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.”
“As much as being in a rock band can be really glamorous and exciting - and it can be a lot of things that people imagine it to be - if you just live that lifestyle, you're gonna burn out really quickly.”

Source : "From "One Week" to 14 Albums: The Barenaked Ladies Still Rocking Strong and Silly After 27 Years". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 17, 2015.
“Compromise is an imperfect act.”
“Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.”
“In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.”
“Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.”

Source : Herbert Hoover, Ruth Dennis (1995). “The Wit and Wisdom of Herbert Hoover: A Compilation of Many of His Quotations”, Vantage Pr

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