"Boulez's only concern is with power. He lost the leadership of the avant-guard more than ten years ago to Stockhausen. Now others have moved in. With the need for power, where was he to go? So he chose to be a conductor. He is a wonderful musician, a wonderful intelligence. It's a pity there is no humanity there. Does he have sex? I think not. When men have no sex, they go after power in this big, obsessive way."

-- Lukas Foss

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“Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake.”
“What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.”

Source : "The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad". Book by by Harrison E. Salisbury, p.112, 2003.
“We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.”

Source : Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press
“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?”
“How miraculous and wondrous, hauling water and carrying firewood!”
“The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.”
“You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.”
“My sisters and I miss our dad dreadfully. But grief, of course, is the price of love.”

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