"I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet."

-- Eric Whitacre

#Thinking Quotes #Speak Quotes #Internet Quotes

“Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.”
“Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.”
“Don't need to say please to no man for a happy tune.”

Source : Song: Cracklin' Rosie
“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”
“There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com
“When animators weren't sleeping, they were drinking.”

Source : Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub
“How is it that we have created an economic system that tells us it is cheaper to destroy the earth and exhaust its people than to nurture them both? Is it rational to have an pricing system which discounts the future and sells off the past? How did we create an economic system that confused capital liquidation with income?”
“Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.”

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