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Let us try for once not to be right. Tristan Tzara, Romanian, poet, playwright

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“If you do the right thing, eventually you will inspire others to do the right thing” Sri Chinmoy, “Opportunity and Self-Transcendence” by Sri Chinmoy, (p. 21), 1977.

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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono, physician, author

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“the coronavirus … cannot be cowed by Twitter posts… overcome by party solidarity… overpowered by campaign rally chants.” Mr. Trump, who is at his strongest politically when he has a human enemy to attack, has seemed less certain of how to take on an invisible killer. The role of calming natural leader is not […]

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Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. Saul Bellow, writer, book quote from Herzog

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Max, you have been the first and the best Stradivarius that I have ever had in my hands Ingmar Bergman, director, commenting on working with actor Max von Sydow (1929-2020)

via In Memory: “Max, you have been the first and the best Stradivarius that I have ever had in my hands.” — Art of Quotation

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior. Martha C. Nussbaum, author, book quote from “Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities”, p.81, Princeton University Press

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But this urge — to demand perfection from women in the face of ever-changing requirements and with absolutely no model for what a “perfect” political woman might look like, and then to put imperfect women out to pasture once we don’t see any route for them to accomplish what we want — is one of […]

via “ …we are signing up for male rule into perpetuity.” — Art of Quotation

“Art requires freedom … in dictatorships there is no art, not even bad art.” Gerhard Richter, painter

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