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John Lennon

"And, because my role in society Ââ€”or any artist or poet's roleâ€” is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not toâ€¦ they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. [â€¦] If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that: they're reflections of societyâ€¦ mirrors."

-- John Lennon

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“In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.”
“I've got a farm in Somerset, and I think it's God's own country. I love it.”
“Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.”
“The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.”
“True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.”

Source : Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.23, Harvest House Publishers
“Creating characters is just another way to express a type and put that type to use.”
“As long as we try to project from the relative and conditioned to the absolute and unconditioned, we shall keep the pendulum swinging between dogmatism and skepticism. The only way to stop this increasingly tiresome pendulum swing is to change our conception of what philosophy is good for. But that is not something which will be accomplished by a few neat arguments. It will be accomplished, if it ever is, by a long, slow process of cultural change - that is to say, of change in common sense, changes in the intuitions available for being pumped up by philosophical arguments.”
“What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.”

Source : "Patrick Swayze Dispels 'Reckless Reports' of Death By Radio Station" by Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. May 19, 2009.

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