"Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century."

-- Abraham Kuyper

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“Really, throughout my career, what I've done is taken teams with bad records and with every situation I've made them better.”
“All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.”
“I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.”

Source : "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", p. 62, 1971.
“People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.”

Source : The New Yorker, en.wikiquote.org. April 7, 1956.
“I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell.”
“I'm old enough to know what to do with my young feelings.”

Source : "Fictional character: Henri Baurel". "An American in Paris", 1951.
“When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]”

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