"Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do."

-- Rowan Williams

#Thinking Quotes #One Direction Quotes #Temptation Quotes

“If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.”
“American businesses are looking for are certainty and executive orders don't really get them that.”
“When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.”
“Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.”
“We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing but accumulations of materials shaped and hardened by history”

Source : Manuel De Landa (1997). “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, Zone Books (NY)
“Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.”
“On one level, going bust didn't bother me. It was the 80s, and there wasn't the stigma about bankruptcy that you might think. My mates weren't bothered. My dad was in business.. he knew that it happened, too. He loaned me the money to bail me out, and I got a loan from the bank to pay him back.”
“The fool is looking for happiness far away. The wise man makes it grow under his feet.”

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