"I think if I was Trinidadian, I would latch more on to the myths and romanticise the place more. I don't think it's my place to do that - they're not really mine. I'm an outsider."

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Source : "Peter Doig: the outsider comes home". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

Peter Doig

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“That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know?”
“Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as intermediaries between the kids on the street and the millionaire businessmen.”

Source : Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone
“Talent is our No.1 operating priority and our most important asset.”
“A man must know his limitations.”
“I have made many mistakes myself; in learning the anatomy of the eye I dare say, I have spoiled a hatfull; the best surgeon, like the best general, is he who makes the fewest mistakes.”
“Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.”

Source : Nelson Goodman (2012). “The Structure of Appearance”, p.1, Springer Science & Business Media
“So many, though reluctant to admit it. Shun clever men, and rather suffer fools.”
“Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.”

Source : Haroon Siddiqui (2010). “Groundwork Being Muslim”, p.59, A&C Black

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