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"I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder"

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"When considering the stature of an athlete ... certain qualities (are) essential in addition to skill ... that the person conducts his or her life with dignity ... integrity, courage & ... modesty. These virtues are totally compatible with pride, ambition & competitiveness."

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"If I knew of something useful to France that would bring ruin to a foreign land, I would not propose it to my ruler, because my humanity precedes my nationality, and my humanity is essential, whereas my citizenship is an accident of birth."

-- Baron de Montesquieu

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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)

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Andrew Wyeth, Blackberry Picker

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"Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up."

-- Thomas Pynchon

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Marjane Satrapi, 1969 - 2026

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"Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's 'Pastoral.'"

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"Jupiter descends in thunder and lightning, sitting 
upon an eagle: he throws a thunderbolt. The Apparitions fall on their knees"

Cymbeline, stage notes
ACT V, SCENE 4
A British prison

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"For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion."

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The universe is composed of atoms and the empty space in between; everything else is mere conjecture.

-- Greek philosopher Democritus, fl. 350 BC

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To master your temper is better than to master the sword. And to conquer your own soul is greater than to subdue a city.

Proverbs 16, Verse 32

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"The Caribbean world is a world where magic is everywhere and where things are not always logical. In Guadeloupe, the dead speak to the living and the visible speak to the invisible."

-- Maryse Condé

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“I compose music. I started to do it, and my whole life is about music, because I love music. That's my life. I eat, breathe and sleep music – and that's something that's never going to change. Probably to the end.”

— Juan Atkins

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"They did not cause me to begin, and they shall not cause me to stop.”

-- Sequoyah, (aka George Guess) on doubters of his Cherokee writing system

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"The pictures I direct are nearly always melancholy. This comes from the contrast between my love & my disillusion. I am an optimist. I love life. I seek perfection. If my art seems pessimistic, it is a consequence of my continuing optimism & its disillusion."

— Vittorio de Sica

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"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Heavenly Blue — Burton Cummings

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"The purpose of this story as I saw it was that in his job of hunting and killing these replicants, Deckard becomes progressively dehumanized. At the same time, the replicants are being perceived as becoming more human."

-- Philip K. Dick

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Play (1975) -- Will Barnet