"Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world."

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Victor Davis Hanson

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“For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks.”
“There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.”
“I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.”

Source : Elizabeth Prelinger, Edvard Munch, High Museum of Art (2001). “After The Scream: The Late Paintings of Edvard Munch”, p.38, Yale University Press
“I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.”
“Keep your foot on the devil's neck by standing on the Word of God, and you will see tremendous results!”
“With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.”

Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, themorningnews.org. July 6, 2006.
“In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.”
“Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.”

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