"Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege."

-- Thomas Mann

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“My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.”
“Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.”
“I think the first feature of any director is going to hold a special place in their heart. It's kind of like a first kiss in that its highly anticipated and will be forever ingrained in your memory, but at the end of the day you're just trying not to slobber all over the other person.”
“For much of the Internet, the shortest path between two points doesn't exist.”
“Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.”

Source : Carol J. Adams (1990). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, Continuum
“I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.”
“The child has a primary need to be regarded and respected as the person he really is at any given time, and as the center - the central actor - in his own activity.”
“It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.”

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