"You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being."

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Martha Graham

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“How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?”
“CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.”
“That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have stayed in bed.”
“There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.”
“I can change my mind, but only the Holy Spirit can change my heart. Divine love can only be divinely imparted.”

Source : Jack Deere (1996). “Surprised by the Power of the Spirit: Discovering how God Speaks and Heals Today”, p.201, Harper Collins
“You're born in a certain time, your budvi, or the way to mind, or the psyche of it all, understands the time in which you were born, and so already information is adapted by the mind of a person born in a certain time, that's why we're so different from our parents, and our parents from theirs.”
“It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience”
“It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (1991). “Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case”, Vintage

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