"Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it."

-- Ruby Bridges

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“I have an idea that all sensible people will ultimately be damned.”

Source : "George Sterling, the Piedmontese restaurant connection" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. April 5, 2017.
“The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs”

Source : "Learning Effectiveness and Faculty Satisfaction". Book by John Bourne, p. 11, 2000.
“There's existential fears I have - losing passion and creativity and just kind of floating through life. When I feel a little lost - pulled away by the noise of what you're supposed to be doing and what your social following is - I go back to the things that inspire me.”

Source : "An Interview with Richard Branson, Jimmy Chin, and Ben Stookesberry". Interview With Paul Solotaroff, www.mensjournal.com.
“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”
“Had I not been told to look, I would have quite, ignorant of what was really there, because I had 'made plans' and was wearing visual and emotional blinders that limited my perceptions and my vision.”
“When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.”
“Business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms. But some do it in a civilized way, while others push it using uncivilized, brazen methods.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I feel like when I'm match tough and match hard and played a lot of matches I got that competitive winning spirit going and I can get on some rolls like I did last year. I won San Jose, Indian Wells and made the semifinals in Miami so it can happen for me.”

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