"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."

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Source : Leopold Stokowski's address to an audience at Carnegie Hall, as quoted in The New York Times, May 11, 1967.

Leopold Stokowski

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“No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.”

Source : Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
“[I just try to stay around the same people] is what kept me out of trouble, because when I got into trouble, it was with people from the outside. The outside always led me to getting into trouble, and really just stayin' in the studio [and] workin' hard, and mainly just keepin' my mind straight.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“When you are thinking about whether you have an obligation to try to save people's lives, you don't usually think, well, how close by are they? Understanding what we are reacting to can change the way we think about the problem. If, biologically, morality evolved to help us get along with individuals in our community, it makes sense that we have heartstrings that can be tugged - and that they are not going to be tugged very hard from far away. But does that make sense? From a more reflective moral perspective, that may just be a cognitive glitch.”

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“The whole surf culture is starting to embrace women a lot more.”

Source : "Blue Crush Interview: Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake". Interview with Steve Horn, www.ign.com. August 15, 2002.
“But how can you know anything of the impression made on others? Who can assure you that others do not draw therefrom incentives to evil? You do not know the depths of human frailty. . . Oh, how truly was it said that if some Christian women could only suspect the temptations and falls they cause in others with modes of dress and familiarity in behavior, which they unthinkingly consider as of no importance, they would be shocked by the responsibility which is theirs.”
“Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!”
“Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.”
“You have your way of life, we ours. In your system of life we are essentially without 'honor.' In our system of life you are essentially without morality. In your system of life we must forever appear graceless; to us you must forever appear godless.”

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