"It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers."

-- Janet Echelman

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“So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.”
“I'm a worrywart, so I'm always a bit more stressed out than I should be or wish I was.”
“As early as 1776, [John Adams] expressed his doubts about America's capacity for virtue. "I have seen all along my Life, Such Selfishness, and Littleness even in New England, that I sometimes tremble to think that, altho We are engaged in the best Cause that ever employed the Human Heart, yet the Prospect of success is doubtfull not for Want of Power or of Wisdom, but of Virtue."”

Source : Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org
“The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.”
“I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.”
“As I have already said, the belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous or all delusions. It becomes still more dangerous if it is coupled with the missionary zeal to enlighten the rest of the world, whether the rest of the world wishes to be enlightened or not. To refuse to embrace wholeheartedly a particular definition of reality, to dare to see the world differently can become a "think crime" in a truly Orwellian sense as we get steadily closer to 1984.”

Source : Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage
“Understanding, above all, is a gift we should never offer uninvited.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”
“They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.”

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