"My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes."

-- Steve Prefontaine

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“The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.”
“The next war... may well bury Western civilization forever.”
“It would be a miracle of God if it happened. I know it... If God wills it, the summer rains will fill the wadis... and the salmon will run the river. And then my countrymen... all classes and manner of men-will stand side by side and fish for the salmon. And their natures, too, will be changed. They will feel the enchantment of this silver fish... and then when talk turns to what this tribe said or that tribe did... then someone will say, Let us arise, and go fishing.”
“Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.”

Source : William Carleton (1850). “The Clarionet, the Dead Boxer, and Barney Branagan. [From “The Fawn of Spring-Vale ... and Other Tales.”]”, p.18
“I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.”
“Character is distilled out of our daily confrontation with temptation, out of our regular response to the call of duty. It is formed as we learn to cherish principles and to submit to self-discipline. Character is the sum total of all the little decisions, the small deeds, the daily reactions to the choices that confront us. Character is not obtained instantly. We have to mold and hammer and forge ourselves into character. It is a distant goal to which there is no shortcut.”
“Wouldn't you like to have heard the voice of Shakespeare, or Jesus Christ?”
“I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.”

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