"I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity."

-- Franz Marc

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“We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.”
“I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.”

Source : "Quotations for Martial Artists : Hundreds of Inspirational Quotes to Motivate and Enlighten the Modern Warrior". Book edited by John D. Moore, 2003.
“There are four types of students: the sponge, the funnel, the strainer, and the sieve. The sponge, which soaks up everything; the funnel, which takes in at one end and lets out at the other; the strainer, which permits the wine to pass out and retains the lees; and the sieve, which separates the bran from the fine flour.”

Source : Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”
“I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.”
“It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”
“A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.”
“A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.”
“We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.”

Source : Interview with Jim Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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