"You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life."

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Source : "Cellist, Human Rights Crusader Mstislav Rostropovich Dies at 80", www.foxnews.com. April 27, 2007.

Mstislav Rostropovich

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“Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.54, Verso
“Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.”
“The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.”
“I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.”
“When temptation comes your way, name that boastful, deceitful giant â€œGoliath!â€ and do with it as David did to the Philistine of Gath.”
“People want to relate to that. That's a healthy place to be. Even movies do this: War movies or light-hearted comedies, they all have their different time. And this is the time, fortunately, for straight plays... Are you going to come see it?”
“Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.”
“For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.”

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