"The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music."

-- Bohuslav Martinu

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“Once you really love a person and, if you want to be in a committed relationship the games need to stop. I mean, you can find some other games to play.”
“Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk into His presence in purity and virtue, and receive His blessingsâ€”even 'all that he hath.'”
“I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.”
“What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.”

Source : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.178, A&C Black
“Everyone misbehaves,' said Eddie. 'That's nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.”
“From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.”

Source : "Deepwater Horizon, One Year Later: A Conversation With Carl Safina". Interview with Douglas Gorney, www.theatlantic.com. April 20, 2011.
“Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family.”
“Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.”

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