Quotes

“Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.” Dorothea Tanning, painter

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“No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.” Jacque Fresco, author, activist

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Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos. Danny Silk, author

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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. Hannah Arendt, book quote from “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order – for meaning. Arthur Miller, playwright

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“For civilization to survive the human race must remain civilized” Rod Serling, screenwriter, movie quote from “The Shelter” episode of Twilight Zone, 1961 A suburban dinner party is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare themselves, they turn against the one family that installed a permanent […]

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Don’t cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it. Bill Withers, 1938-2020, singer, songwriter, musician

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I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, book quote […]

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Source: podcast “Cape Up”, April 3, 2020 We left behind a 69-page playbook, which was sort of ‘Pandemic for Dummies.’ If you don’t know where to start, start here, and ask these questions and do these things,” Rice told me in the latest episode of “Cape Up.” “And, apparently, if they weren’t thrown into garbage […]

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if you’re working or studying from home over the next few weeks, perhaps remember the example Newton set. Having time to muse and experiment in unstructured comfort proved life-changing for him — and no one remembers whether he made it out of his pajamas before noon. Without his professors to guide him, Newton apparently thrived. […]

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