Power doesnt corrupt people, people corrupt power. – William Gaddis
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The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. – Lewis Mumford
You see, I had been riding with the storm clouds, and had come to earth as rain, and it was drought that I had killed with the power that the Six Grandfathers gave me. – Black Elk
There is a physical relationship with a woman that you dont have with anybody else, but thats not about love. Love is a spiritual thing. – Ziggy Marley
The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just dont trust the entrepreneurs ability to grow her own business and to create jobs. – Sher Valenzuela
Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books. – Jerry Saltz
When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole. – Reese Hoffa