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“Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.”
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“Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it.”
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“I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.”
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“I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.”
Source : Raoul Dufy, Alfred Werner (1970). “Raoul Dufy”, Harry N Abrams Inc
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“The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.”
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“The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?”
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“The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.”
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“My early life was full of music because my sisters played the piano and I started playing at three.”
Source : "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015. 
