"I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves."

-- RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

#Nerves Quotes #Artistic Quotes #Conscience Quotes

“You can get an ice-cold Coke for around fifty cents in most developing countries, not just in the major population centers, but at the most remote and surprising places. The logistical challenges to resupplying all these outlets are enormous - and yet, the entire system works with incredible efficiency as is confirmed by the price of the product.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“As it is now, decades after 1965, the people of Indonesia have no clue about any other system except their own, or about true democracy.”
“The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.”

Source : John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.184
“Half Man, Half Sit-Out-The-Season.”
“I secretly want to be a rapper.”
“... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.”

Source : Sarah Patton Boyle (2016). “The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition”, p.102, Pickle Partners Publishing
“If a nonartist teaches a subject called art, it is nonart.”

Source : Daniell Cornell, Ruth Asawa (2006). “The Sculpture of Ruth Asawa: Contours in the Air”, University of California Press
“Mathematics is the purest of the arts, as well as the most misunderstood.”

Source : "A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form". Book by Paul Lockhart, 2009.

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