"What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves."

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Source : "The Big Interview: Raising Kain". Interview with Richard Ouzounian, www.thestar.com. November 4, 2011.

Karen Kain

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“Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.”

Source : Uses of the Past ch. 8 (1957)
“Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?”
“I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2015). “Koolaids”, p.146, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.”

Source : "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.
“Few things interest me more than the things people don't say.”
“I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve I wrote 'bankrupt' at the foot. And it was on Christmas morning 1895, after I had celebrated three Masses, while the bells of the parish church were ringing out the Christmas message of peace, that, with great pain, I found myself far out from the familiar land--homeless, aimlessly drifting. But the bells were right after all; from that hour on I have been wholly free from the nightmare of doubt that had lain on me for ten years.”
“Healing requires taking action-it is not a passive event.”
“Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.”

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