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Counselor to POTUS, Kellyanne speaks to CNN’s Jake Tapper (YAAY, Jake!)
re: Trump’s latest attacks on the media – “unwillingness to cover terrorist attacks“.
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“That’s the way I see him,” Edel Rodriquez (cover artist for Der Spiegel) told the Washington Post “I see him as someone that’s very angry, and it’s pretty much his mouth that’s moving all the time, so that’s how I tend to show him in some of my work.“
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THEELIXIR
OF
FREEDOM
TRUTH-TELLING
CREATIVE EXPRESSION
ACTIONS
OPENING UP
HUMANITY’S PSYCHE
TO
RISE
WELCOMING
BOUNDLESS JOY
CONNECTEDNESS
WITH
ALL HUMANITY
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“We must become bigger than we have been:
more courageous,
greater in spirit,
larger in outlook.
We must become members of a new race,
overcoming petty prejudice,
owing our ultimate allegiance
not to nations
but
to our fellow men
within the human community.”
Haile Selassie
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FEAR +COURAGE
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
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“Courageis not the absence of fear,
but rather the assessment that something else
is more important than fear.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear,
but the triumph over it.
The brave wo/ man is not s/he who does not feel afraid,
but s/he who conquersthat fear.“
Nelson Mandela
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
Lao Tzu
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“You may not always have a comfortable life
and
you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once
but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have
because history has shown us
that courage can be contagious
and
hope can take on a life of its own.”
Michelle Obama
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“Your time is limited,
so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma
– which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important,
have the courageto follow your heart and intuition.“
Steve Jobs
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“Courage is the most important of all the virtues,
“The empty space is the great horror and stimulant of creation. But there is also something predictable in the way the fear and apathy encountered at the beginning are accountable for feelings of elation at the end. These intensities of the creative process can stimulate desires of consistency and control, but history affirms that few transformative experiences are generated by regularity.
When asked for advice on painting, Claude Monet told people not to fear mistakes. The discipline of art requires constant experimentation, wherein errors are harbingers of original ideas because they introduce new directions for expression. The mistake is outside the intended course of action, and it may present something that we never saw before, something unexpected and contradictory, something that may be put to use.”
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“Human freedominvolves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness.”
Rollo May “COURAGE TO CREATE”
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“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.They do not run awayfrom non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.”
The seven works now on view at the New York museum include pieces by painter Ibrahim el-Salahi (Sudan), sculptor Parviz Tanavoli (Iran), painter Tala Madani (Iran), architect Zaha Hadid (Iraq), painter Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (Iran), photographer Shirana Shahbazi (Iran), and painter Marcos Grigorian (Russia, of Persian descent).
The artworks were installed in MoMA’s fifth floor galleries on Thursday night, replacing seven artworks by Western artists like Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Placards next to each work read:
This work is by an artist from a nation whose citizens are being denied entry into the United States, according to a presidential executive order issued on Jan. 27, 2017. This is one of several such artworks from the Museum’s collection installed throughout the fifth-floor galleries to affirm the ideals of welcome and freedom as vital to this Museum as they are to the United States.
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This is exactly how major art museums
can protest President Donald Trump’s Muslim ban.
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Ibrahim El-Salahi (Sudanese, born 1930), “The Mosque,” 1964, oil on canvas, 12 1/8 x 18 1/8” (30.7 x 46 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art / Elizabeth Bliss Parkinson Fund
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Charles Hossein Zenderoudi (Iranian, born 1937), “K+L+32+H+4. Mon père et moi (My Father and I),”
1962, felt-tip pen and colored ink on paper on board,
89 x 58 5/8” (225.9 x 148.7 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art / Philip Johnson Fund
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Tala Madani (Iranian, born 1981), “Chit Chat,” 2007, video (color, silent), 2:38 min.
The Museum of Modern Art / Fund for the Twenty-First Century
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BREATHE Catherine L. Johnson 2016
BREATHE is currently on exhibition in the POST- ELECTION Show
The following is a statement from John Noseworthy, M.D., Mayo Clinic President and CEO.
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“Although questions remain about the order’s implementation, Mayo Clinic remains steadfast in supporting our patients, staff, families and community. Each year, we welcome thousands of visitors from across the globe, many of whom receive care from our incredibly talented and diverse team members. We value our international staff and partners, and are privileged to train a broad range of medical personnel from around the world. Mayo Clinic is a place of compassion, respect and trust, and our collective diversity helps make us the best place to work and receive care. We are actively monitoring the situation, exploring ways to ensure that the needs of our patients and staff are met, and will share new information as it becomes available.”
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Th shape of my life was shaped by the CULTURE of the Mayo Clinic.
I lived in hospital for the first 10 years of my life.
George Orwell’s classic book “1984,” about a dystopian future where critical thought is suppressed under a totalitarian regime, has seen a surge in sales this month, rising to the top of the Amazon best-seller list in the United States and leading its publisher to have tens of thousands of new copies printed.
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Craig Burke, the publicity director at Penguin USA, said that the publisher had ordered 75,000 new copies of the book this week and that it was considering another reprint.
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“We’ve seen a big bump in sales,” Mr. Burke said. He added that the rise “started over the weekend and hit hyperactive” on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Since Friday, the book has reached a 9,500 percent increase in sales, he said.
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He said demand began to lift on Sunday, shortly after the interview Kellyanne Conway, an adviser to Donald J. Trump, gave on “Meet the Press.”
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In defending a false claim by the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, that Mr. Trump had attracted the “largest audience ever to witness an inauguration,” Ms. Conway used a turn of phrase that struck some observers as similar to the dystopian world of “1984.”
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When asked on NBC’s “Meet the Press” why Mr. Spicer had said something that was provably false, Ms. Conway replied airily, “Don’t be so dramatic.”
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Mr. Spicer, she said, “gavealternative facts.”
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In the novel, the term “newspeak” refers to language in which independent thought, or “unorthodox” political ideas, have been eliminated. “Doublethink” is defined as “reality control.”
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On social media and elsewhere on Sunday, the book’s readers made a connection between Ms. Conway’s comments and Orwell’s language, and the attention on the book “kind of took a life of its own,” Mr. Burke said.
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The dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster described the interview as “fraught with epistemological tension.” The dictionary also reported that searches for the word “fact” spiked after Ms. Conway’s comments, and then, as an apparent reminder, tweeted the dictionary’s definition.
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Even outside the United States, interest in “1984” has grown. So far this year, sales have risen by 20 percent in Britain and Australia compared to the same period a year ago, according to Jess Harrison, a London-based editor at Penguin Books. The novel is usually a best-seller, she said, and it sold 100,000 copies last year in English-speaking countries outside the United States and Canada. “But we’ve definitely seen an uplift” in sales, she added.
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Dystopian novels are “chiming with people,” Ms. Harrison said, adding that “The Man in The High Castle” by Philip Dick, an alternative history in which the Nazis defeated America to win World War II, is also selling well. A television series based on Mr. Dick’s novel is now in its second season at Amazon.
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Penguin also published Sinclair Lewis’s “It Can’t Happen Here,” about the rise of a demagogue, last Friday in Britain for the first time since 1935, “and we’re already on to our third printing.”
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On Wednesday, that book was also ranking among Amazon’s best sellers, as was Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” another dystopian classic.
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Prof. Stefan Collini, a professor of intellectual history and an expert on Orwell at the University of Cambridge, said that readers see a natural parallel between the book and the way Mr. Trump and his staff have distorted facts.
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“Everyone remembers ‘1984’ as containing various parodies of official distortions,” he said.
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“That kind of unreality that is propagated as reality is what people feel reminded of, and that’s why they keep coming back.”
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