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“Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.”

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Tony Bouza, born on April 10, 1928, is a renowned police officer. He has extensive experience in law enforcement and has achieved significant accomplishments throughout his career. more

“The truth is . . . that the great artists of the world are never puritans, and seldom ever ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the YMCA sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.”

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.”

World Wells Art Artist Difficult Conditions Individuality Crush Routine Stereotype Free Life

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8

“More and more research is suggesting that, far from being simply encoded in the genes, much of personality is a flexible and dynamic thing that changes over the life span and is shaped by experience.”

Growth Human Nature Personality Research Genes Flexible Growth Mindset Suggesting Life Span

Author:Carol S. Dweck

“Sometime, it will be found that people can be changed only by changing their surroundings. It is alleged that, at least ninety-five percent of the criminals transported from England to Australia and other penal colonies, became good and useful citizens in a new world.”

People World Found Five Human Nature Changed Citizens Percent England Criminals Australia New World Ninety Surroundings Colony

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of duty, solidarity, loyalty, public-spiritedness, patriotism, and so on - that are sometimes even more important than self-seeking as the driver of our behaviors.”

Important Self Sometimes Interest Human Nature Honesty Duty Behavior Seeking Loyalty Motive Self Respect Drivers Solidarity Altruism Self Interest

Author:Ha-Joon Chang

“The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.”

Men Has Beens Self Philosophy Given Social Interest Millions Human Nature Theory Men And Women Ideals Direct Humanist Self Interest Given Up Indirect

Author:Corliss Lamont

“Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.”

School Sports Moral Grace Pressure Appreciation Noble Inspirational Sports Spectators Participants Undertakings Under Pressure Sportsmanship Grace Under Pressure

Book:With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

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