"Iâ€™ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics."

-- John Luther Adams

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“Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.”
“And yet the Nobel Prizes, in singling out individuals, have done a great deal of good in pointing up to the world as a whole and setting forth clearly goals for achievement.”
“In a democratic society, as Max Weber said, what is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible. The abolitionists helped to create a public discourse in which men like Lincoln become possible. That doesn't mean Lincoln is an abolitionist. It means there is a public opinion out there which is being influenced by antislavery sentiment.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being unbearable and I think you want to capture that frustration, but also the release.”
“...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.”
“When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.”
“A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.”

Source : Thomas Robert Malthus (1959). “Population: The First Essay”, p.4, University of Michigan Press
“Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.”

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