"Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed."

-- T. J. Clark

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“In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.”
“The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.”
“Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.”
“Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.”

Source : Song: Silent Legacy, Album: Yes I Am
“I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.”
“Zero is powerful because it is infinityâ€™s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy, of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a zero â€“ and an infinity.”

Source : Charles Seife (2000). “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, p.2, Penguin
“The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.”

Source : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.179, Syracuse University Press
“Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.”

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