"Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying."

-- Pauli Murray

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“"Easy" is a word that's used to describe other people's jobs.”

Source : David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried (2010). “ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever”, p.266, Random House
“Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.”
“Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.”
“My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.”
“Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others. To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love, is to open up a horizon of hope; it is to let a shaft of light break through the heavy clouds; it is to bring the warmth of hope!”

Source : Pope Francis' Homily for inaugural Mass of Petrine Ministry, w2.vatican.va. March 19, 2013.
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so â€“ this has always been my dream â€“ so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
“Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?”
“It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.”

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