"No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition."

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Milan Kundera

#Kitsch Quotes #Matter Quotes #Human Condition Quotes

“Too much ice is really bad for polar bears.”

Source : "Willie Soon: 'Too Much Ice Is Really Bad for Polar Bears'" by Sabrina Shankman, insideclimatenews.org. February 24, 2015.
“I couldn't do anything. I'd work in a department store for a couple of weeks, but I couldn't hack it. I couldn't even type! I had no skills whatsoever outside of show business.”
“Extreme exercise doesnâ€™t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesnâ€™t work that way.”
“I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.”
“The foreign accent was a promise, and indeed, all over the country, European imports added spice to the sciences, the arts, and other areas. What one had to give was not considered inferior to what one received.”
“As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports.”
“I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.”
“Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late.”

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