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Our task, then always, is to challenge the apparent forms of reality-that is, the fixed manner and values of the few, and…
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment…
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Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural…
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The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by…
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The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to…
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It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
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I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be…
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.
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Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be…
— Sun Tzu
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Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can…
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All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is more than an object.…
— Zhuangzi
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What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.
— Michael Ondaatje
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Love has its own independent form and formlessness. When someone loves you be gratiful for it. If they stop loving be grateful…
— Frederick Lenz
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One day the play ends and the screen goes blank. There is nothing. Everything returns to its original formlessness - and then…
— Frederick Lenz
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To me, grey is the welcome and only possible equivalent for indifference, noncommitment, absence of opinion, absence of shape. But grey, like…
— Gerhard Richter
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series…
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