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For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . read more
For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled read more
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of read more
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run
When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest read more
When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don’t sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
