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“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
A genius is a man most like himself.
-Thelonius Monk
Season of Glass
‘spring passes
and one remembers one’s innocence
summer passes
and one remembers one’e exuberance
autumn passes
and one remembers one’s reverence
winter passes
and one remembers one’s perseverencethere is a season that never passes
and that is the season of glass’– Yoko Ono ’80
Too many people think the grass is greener somewhere else but grass is green where you water it, remember that.
"If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favorable."
Seneca
“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,” she wrote. They were secure enough to be good natured and open to new ideas, and they believed so completely in the promise of American democracy that they would defend it with their lives, even if they seemed too easygoing to join a struggle. “But the frustrated and humiliated intellec
... See more"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers"
-Kahlil Gibran
“The rich have all the money and pay none of the taxes. The middle class have none of the money and pay all of the taxes. The poor are there just to scare the middle class so they keep showing up for those jobs.”
George Carlin (1937-2008)
You've done something clever with your years on this planet. You're here to see if you can figure out how to do something important, now. We want to systematize the struggle here, figure out how to automate it, but eventually there will always be blood. You need to learn to be dispassionate about the interpersonal conflicts, to save your anger for
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