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“The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.”
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“I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.”
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“Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies To listen to Earth’s weary voices Louder every day Bidding her no longer linger On her charm’d way But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun.”
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“In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.”
Source : David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.99, Image Continuum Press
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“When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.”
Source : Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Apathukatha Sivathanu Pillai (2004). “Envisioning an Empowered Nation: Technology for Societal Transformation”, TATA McGraw-Hill Publishing Company
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“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
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“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”
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“There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought. Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time. Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.”
Source : "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998. 
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“So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.”
