"To be a European is to try to negotiate morally, intellectually and existentially the opposing statements and praxis of the city of Socrates and the city of Isaiah."

-- George Steiner

#Cities Quotes #Trying Quotes #Praxis Quotes

“Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah”
“God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.”
“In life you have two choices. You can laugh or you can cry. You have to laugh, you have to.”
“We see Facebook as an advertising platform. We see Ello as a social network.”
“Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.”

Source : "Paris: The Collected Traveler". Book by Barrie Kerper, 2011.
“But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I canâ€™t help people eat cereal any longer.”

Source : Rivka Galchen (2014). “American Innovations: Stories”, p.10, Macmillan
“I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.”
“We move from the illusion of certainty, to the certainty of illusion”

Source : John Bradshaw (2013). “Homecoming: Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child”, p.59, Bantam

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