"the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz â€¦ anything that contains the original energy of joy."

-- Charles Bukowski

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“The hoop dancer dances within what encircles him, demonstrating how the people live in motion within the circling spirals of time and space. They are no more limited than water and sky. At green corn dance time, water and sky come together, in Indian time, to make rain.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.124, Open Road Media
“You are as good as the people you dress.”
“Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.”
“There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.”
“What happened to the American Dream? It came true! You're lookin' at it”
“There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.”
“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”

Source : "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.
“We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.”

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