"Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination."

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“People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.”

“Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.”

“We saw Earth’s breath.”

“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”

“When the personal worth of individuals is calculated only in money, sense of self becomes confused with financial net worth.”

“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

Resonant Thoughts

"Strive not for singularity in dress; Fools have the more and men of sense the less. To look original is not worth while, But be in mind a little out of style."

— Ambrose Bierce

Literature1842–1914

#creativity

"Mendelssohn is the inventor of religious kitsch in music. His first essay in this genre is a masterpiece, the Fugue in E Minor, published in 1837 but written ten years earlier, when the composer was e…"

— Charles Rosen

Music1927–2012

#creativity

"Here then is the pattern in my carpet, the sense of the eternal mysteries, the eternal beauty hidden beneath the crust of common and commonplace things; hidden and yet burning and glowing continually …"

— Arthur Machen

Literature1863–1947

#beauty

"Dominance hierarchies had underlain every system ever realized so far, but at the same time democratic values had been always a hope and a goal, expressed in every primate’s sense of self, and resentm…"

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Science1952

#hope