"We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance."

-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Kindness Quotes #Government Quotes #Self Quotes

“Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.”

Source : Sona Johnston, Paul Hayes Tucker, Theodore Robinson, Baltimore Museum of Art (2004). “In Monet's light: Theodore Robinson at Giverny”, Philip Wilson Publishers
“Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My home is at the WWE. I truly do love performing. The atmosphere here isn't like anything else. It's truly where I belong.”
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”

Source : Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books
“The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.”
“Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.”
“Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.”

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