"The historical museum has to be very conservative and careful in its choices. The modern museum, on the other hand, has to be audacious, to take chances. It has to consider the probability that it would be wrong in a good many cases and take the consequences later."

-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

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“We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.”
“Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that its completely unrelated to everything that came before.”
“Teaching is the highest art; before the doctor, there was a teacher.”
“Picking other people's brains is an art worth cultivating.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (2012). “Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking”, p.6, New York Review of Books
“Good stories are not written by people who live in a city of dirty strip malls, forced to listen to the machinated opinions of lawyers, bean counters and statisticiansâ€¦ Good stories strong enough to love are created by those brave enough to live.”
“Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about compassion within the family. Whether we oppress or liberate our children in our relationships with them will determine whether they grow up to oppress and be oppressed or to liberate and be liberated.”
“We all have various ways of dropping in and getting connected to ourselves. For one person it might be playing basketball. It's a good way to get in touch with how they feel. For somebody else, it might be taking a walk.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.”

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