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„Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.“
— John W. Gardner American politician 1912 - 2002
Quoted in Matthew M. Radmanesh, Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe, p. 269.
„Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing but sex.“
— Rajneesh Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement 1931 - 1990
Context: Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing but sex. I was surprised to learn that ascetics, who are always preaching against sex, seem to be captivated by it. They are curious about it and disturbed by it; they have this mental complex about it, yet they sermonize about religion and about the animal instincts in man. And sex is so natural.
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„If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb,; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day.“
— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
„Because of you, each day is a melon slice
smelling sweetly of earth
Because of you, all fruits reach out to me
as if I were the sun.
Thanks to you, I live on the honey of hope.
You are the reason my heart beats.
Because of you, even my loneliest nights
smile like an Anatolian kilim on your wall.
Should my journey end before I reach my city,
I've rested in a rose garden thanks to you.
Because of you I don't let death enter,
clothed in the softest garments,
and knocking on my door with songs
calling me to the greatest place.“
— Nâzım Hikmet Turkish poet 1902 - 1963
From Because of You (29 August 1960)
„Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.“
— Jacque Fresco American futurist and self-described social engineer 1916 - 2017
„We all have two lives. The second begins when you realize you only have one.“
— Tom Hiddleston English actor, producer and musical performer 1981
„The careful experiments of Joule, who developed heat in various ways by the application of mechanical force, establish almost to a certainty, not only the possibility of increasing the quantity of heat, but also the fact that the newly-produced heat is proportional to the work expended in its production.“
— Rudolf Clausius German mathematical physicist 1822 - 1888
The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1867), First Memoir.
„I don't think that Anne or I had any concept that we were unusual to have this idea to go straight for The Beatles-type thing. So, completely without a sexual reference involved, just strode in the door and made a band, or two, or three.“
— Nancy Wilson 1954
On forming bands with her sister, Anne, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame interview, 2016
„How unsearchable his judgments [are] and past tracing out his ways [are]! For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?“
— Paul of Tarsus, book Epistle to the Romans
Epistle to the Romans, Context: O the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How unsearchable his judgments [are] and past tracing out his ways [are]! For “who has come to know Jehovah’s mind, or who has become his counselor?”
Romans 11:33 http://www.jw.org/en/publications/bible/nwt/books/romans/11/, NWT
„Lesson one: If you're ever in a beautiful cathedral, take your hat off!“
— Ben Kowalewicz musician 1975
From "The Diary of Billy Talent":
„Hey Constantinople! Either I take you, or you take me!
( During conquest of Constantinople )“
— Mehmed II Ottoman sultan 1432 - 1481
„You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.“
— Malcolm X American human rights activist 1925 - 1965
„I don't care for 'Abstract expressionism'.... and it is certainly not 'non-objective', and not 'non-representational' either. I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your consciousness, figures are bound to emerge. We're all of us influenced by Freud, I guess. I've been a Jungian for a long time... Painting is a state of being... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.“
— Jackson Pollock American artist 1912 - 1956
1950's, In an interview (1956); published in Conversations with Artists, by Seldon Rodman, New York, Capricorn Books, 1961, pp. 84-85
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