"Our society is blind. We have lost our ability to be affected by imagery."

-- Alfredo Jaar

#Our Society Quotes #Blind Quotes #Lost Quotes

“Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television... I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.”
“Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.”
“Tenancy laws can be so complicated; I want to make sure OP is protected as much as possible.”
“Sometimes, the only way to discover who we are, is by figuring out who we are not.”
“You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.”
“The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.”

Source : Thomas Young, John Leitch (1855). “Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c: And One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institute of France. Vols. I. & II., Including His Scientific Memoirs, &c”, p.181
“A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.”
“The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.”

Source : Robert Fortune (1853). “Two visits to the tea countries of China and the british tea plantations in the Himalaya”, p.74

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