"Who would have predicted a century ago that the richest civilizations in history would be made up of polluted tracts of suburban development dominated by the private automobile, shopping malls, and a throwaway economy? Surely, this is not the ultimate fulfillment of our destiny."

-- Alan Thein Durning

#Destiny Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Shopping Quotes

“Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.”
“On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.”
“Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.”
“However, there is one great temptation and that is that you can forget that the aim of the writer was to reject all other worlds and to construct one of his own and that the aim of the translator is to re-embody himself into the world of the various writers.”

Source : "From Bach to Kafka, or... about Temptation". Interview with Emil Bassat, Sofia News, May 30, 1984.
“There is no way of conveying to the corpse the reasons you have made him one--you have the corpse, and you are, thereafter, at themercy of a fact which missed the truth, which means that the corpse has you.”
“It's the timing. I don't have to do it [drugs] all the time.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“Absolute trust is something hard to achieve even in a family, and it is much harder to achieve on an international level.”
“It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.”

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