"I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction."

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Julie Mehretu

#Elements Quotes

“[S]tudies show that one of the best ways to lift your mood is to engineer an easy success, such as tackling a long-delayed chore.”

Source : Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.24, HarperCollins
“That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.”
“In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars adn government repression of the entire twentieth century, the century of Hitler and Stalin. How much would we give to prevent those horrors? Yet how little are we doing to prevent today's even larger toll and all the misery that it involves? I believe that if you read this book to the end, and look honestly and carefully at our situation, assessing both the facts and the ethical arguments, you will agree that we must act.”
“It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.”
“I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.”
“Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.”
“If you've only had one relationship, how do you know you're good in bed?”
“Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.”

Source : "Mind, Self, and Society". Book by George Herbert Mead, 1934.

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