"Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist."

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Source : Lisa McMann (2012). “Dead to You”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Lisa McMann

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“The challenge to the improvisor is to get permanence into his spontaneity. The challenge to the composer is to get spontaneity into his permanence.”
“Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.”

Source : "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
“Why are we talking about talking? Why negotiating about negotiating? It's very simple. If you want to get to peace, put all your preconditions on the side, sit down opposite a table, not in a studio, by the way.”
“Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.”
“You will not be able to enjoy a good night's sleep unless you've worked hard during the day”
“Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1938). “The queen of the sciences”
“Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.”
“For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.”

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