"Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create."

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Source : John Galsworthy (2016). “The Man of Property”, p.6, Open Road Media

John Galsworthy

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“You can't control the success or failure of a thing you work on. You can only control the thing you work on.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”
“If you want to understand what it means to be afraid, what fear as experienced by human beings is, then your focus must shift. No longer will you be satisfied with mechanical, physiological, neurological accounts. For this inquiry will require you to observe closely what human beings feel, sing, think, write and say to one another.”
“I'm definitely not an outsider artist. I'm very much an insider artist. I get written about in art magazines, and I'm not, like, in a mental institution. I'm a regular guy who went to art school.”
“It was almost like I was in the army.”
“Songs really tend to connect.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.”

Source : "Rahul Dravid: a Gentleman Player". news.bbc.co.uk. March 07, 2008.
“True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.”

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