"Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art thatâ€™s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess weâ€™re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism."

-- Tom Robbins

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“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”

Source : "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.
“The Creator has given me the strength to look forward in life, to embrace the beautiful and the positive. Now I truly walk in beauty.”
“The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.”

Source : United States v. Darby Lumber Company, 312 U.S. 100, (124), 1941.
“Being a resident of the city and spending most of my time in the city, I've always been perplexed with how people could say there's nothing to do and nothing going on in Detroit, and how could you raise your family in Detroit. My reality is that I hang around with some of the most interesting creative people in the world, people doing things that could only be done in Detroit.”
“Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.”
“That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact, can survive natural catastrophe, neglect, and even mistreatment, has always filled me with wonder. Sometimes in museums, looking at a humble piece of pottery from ancient Persia or Pompeii, or a finely wrought page from a medieval illuminated manuscript toiled over by a nameless monk, or a primitive tool with a carved handle, I am moved to tears. The unknown life of the maker is evanescent in its brevity, but the work of his or her hands and heart remains.”
“Don't let anyone drain you of your happiness today. Be drama free. Rise above the petty stuff.”
“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”

Source : George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.122

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