"Once artists are expected to shock, it's that much harder for them to do so."

-- Jerry Saltz

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“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.”

Source : "Eternal Greece". Book by Rex Warner, 1961.
“I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.”
“Clockwork could not run counter to its nature. The seconds, minutes, and hours moved only forward. Patient, precise, and unstoppable. Memory was an indulgence, an illusion that broke like a wave upon the juggernaut of time. The past remained the past.”

Source : Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.155, Scholastic Inc.
“This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of some four million people. And that was not done by gas. It was done by arrogance. It was done by dogma. It was done by ignorance. When people believe that they have absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is how they behave.”

Source : Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”
“The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)”
“It's impossible to talk without labels. "Dog" is a label, but that doesn't mean it's meaningless, nor does it mean there's no difference in a Shih Tzu and a Doberman.”
“My father lead by fear.Â I did what my father said â€˜cause I was scared of getting my ***** beat.Â His voice rang so vividly in my head.Â That it was justâ€¦a fear.”
“As long as a character doesnt die, the character can always come back.”

Source : "Cote de Pablo Could Return To ‘NCIS’", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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