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Quote of the Day
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.
- Mary Astell
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No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.
→I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
→When I work alone, my process is like painting. With Fleetwood Mac, it's more like movie making.
→If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
→God has a most wicked sense of humor.
→Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
→In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
→Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
→Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
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