"Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied; "You need a heart."

-- Richard Watson Gilder

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“No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation.”
“My parents preached so much about Christianity and my mother thinks Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to the world - which he is - and God found a way of making examples for me. Like, just growing up, bullets would hit my partner but not me and I'd be right there. Or my Dad had a thing where he would make me play for the sorry team during football and make me go up against all my friends. It built a certain kind of character and a humble factor into me because I knew I had to work for it. And then to be able to beat them or be just as successful at so many things.”
“Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice, every other option.”
“I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.”
“Instead of just asking 'How did I do?' ask 'How can I do more?'”
“I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.”
“The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be neither happy, nor wise, nor good.”
“The interest and the feelings are not due to colors; the lines of a painting that move us move us even more in a print.”

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