"That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians."

-- Billy Bragg

#People Quotes #Wade Quotes #Mud Quotes

“The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.”

Source : "The grand illusionist" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 1999.
“Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.”

Source : William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1913). “Political speeches. Speeches on foreign lands. Educational and religiouus speeches. Miscellaneous speeches”
“It's just programming" "No. It's because I love him”
“Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.”
“I thought I wanted to go to drama school or university, and that would have been a completely different life. But what got me was the sound, and hearing it. Hearing everything so loud, I loved that back in the studio. I loved that from the very beginning.”
“What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.”
“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.”
“At the heart of capitalism is the unification of knowledge and power. As Friedrich Hayek, the leader of the Austrian school of economics, put it, "To assume all the knowledge to be given to a single mind... is to disregard everything that is important and significant in the real world." Because knowledge is dispersed, power must be as well.”

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