"It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it."

-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“A truly unselfish act is not mine, but God's. It cannot be obstructed. Only for my own plans, my own wishes to study, to work, to rest, eat, or do a service to my fellowman- can some external circumstance "get in the way," and then I am grieved.”
“For mental and emotional health, quiet time is very important to me. I need a point in every day that I disconnect from all electronics and reconnect to my center. I pray and meditate. I drink a ton of water and believe in a good night's sleep.”
“When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.”
“That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Moscaâ€™s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.”
“They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.”
“So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“The foreground in a picture is always unattractive... Art demands that the interest of the canvas should be placed in the far distance, where lies take refuge, those dreams which blossom out of fact and are man's only love.”
“I need my career. That's what validates me.”

Source : "Break Time Is Over : Anita Baker's last album was in 1990. Then everyone thought she was lost to motherhood. Guess everybody forgot to ask the important person: Baker". Interview with Dennis Hunt, articles.latimes.com. September 18, 1994.

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