"For years I said if I could only find a comfortable chair I would rival Mozart."

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Source : Morton Feldman (2000). “Give My Regards to Eighth Street: Collected Writings of Morton Feldman”

Morton Feldman

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“In a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.”
“Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.”
“If we want to strengthen the EU, then we urgently need a two-pronged approach. First, we can save a lot of money if we finally move to harness synergy effects in military spending. The parallel structures in the individual armies still remain far too costly, and we could save a lot by making joint purchases. Second, we cannot only think in terms of conventional military logic, but instead have to be far better prepared to thwart cyberattacks. Most importantly, we can no longer allow the EU to become bogged down in petty details.”
“The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.”

Source : "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.
“Perhaps you went to bed last night thinking about the overdue bills, the lack of finances, the problematic people and situations you have to face. This morning you woke up. Did you give thanks? If you didn't, it is probably because you forgot that when praise goes up, the blessings come down. That should be enough to inspire you to be thankful.”
“Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.”

Source : Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.80, Macmillan
“Our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable as it is dangerous ... our impatience to better the lot of our fellows.”
“Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”

Source : Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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