"The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference."

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I'm quietly becoming New York's premiere actor. People don't understand. They have me pigeon-holed as a comedian.”
“Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta - you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace,”
“Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.”
“Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.”

Source : "Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. November 18, 2008.
“An authentically powered person lives in love. Love is the energy of the soul. Love is what heals the personality. There is nothing that cannot be healed by love. There is nothing but love.”
“We just got our ***** beat by a much better team. It happens once in a while. Does every team win every game?”
“We have at most ten years - not ten years to decide upon action, but ten years to alter fundamentally the trajectory of global greenhouse emissions... We are near a tipping point, a point of no return, beyond which the built in momentum and feedbacks will carry us to levels of climate change with staggering consequences for humanity and all of the residents of this planet.”
“We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.”

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