"To love something as an artist ... means to be shaken not by its ultimate value or lack of value, but by a side of it that suddenly opens up. Where art has value it shows things that few have seen. It's conquering, not pacifying."

-- Robert Musil

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“They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the American, whether he sails the sea in the North, gallops over the plain in the West, or sleeps in his hammock in the forests of Brazil.”
“We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.”
“Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.”
“It's all about the journey, not the outcome.”
“People say to me. 'What about the rich?' They need Jesus too.' Well, that's fine if you're called to them, but we're called to the poor. The rich can look after themselves.”
“From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.”
“Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.”

Source : Richard Hough (2003). “Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, The Overlook Press
“Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.”

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