"Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning, not from vanity always, but frequently because it is all he has got; no real sense, no wisdom of his own, merely much good stuff he has learned from other sources. He spreads it like a garment as any other decent person would to hide the thinness of his shanks."

-- Corra May Harris

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“The Pigtronix Envelope Phaser pedal is a definite 'must have' for your Funk recipe cookbook......it adds definite Funkaliciousness to your WOO stew.”
“People can be motivated to creativity simply with the instruction to "be creative."”
“We only get one life. Wasting someone's time is the subtlest form of murder.”

Source : "Attention, men: don't be a creepy dude who pesters women in coffee shops and on the subway" by Lindy West, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2014.
“I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'”

Source : David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”
“If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.”
“One rose says more than the dozen.”
“Interesting statistic: In every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80 percent of the value of the recovery. Since 1982, the top 10 percent has captured 90 percent of the value of the economic recovery.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.”

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