"In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized."

-- J. Paul Getty

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“Because we men have been physically stronger and more arrogant, weve influenced much of the cool stuff of the world, like basing the definition of courage on what we do on battlefields rather than on the patience or endurance or tolerance necessary for a sometimes painful daily grind that includes small children.”
“She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the windows been thrown open onto a brillant view that had been there, waiting for her, all the time. A view, moreover, laden with the most marvellous possibilities and opportunities.”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.354, Macmillan
“Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.”
“There is something in the New York air that makes sleep useless.”
“I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”

Source : "Yogi Berra vs. Casey Stengel Quote War". Interview with Stan Silliman, bleacherreport.com. August 18, 2010.
“The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait”
“The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.”
“Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.”

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