"Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself."

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Bell Hooks

#Ideas Quotes #Personality Quotes #Cult Quotes

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”
“Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.”
“Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.”
“Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.”
“YOUR HEART IS FULL of fertile seeds, waiting to sprout. Just as a lotus flower springs from the mire to bloom splendidly, the interaction of the cosmic breath causes the flower of the spirit to bloom and bear fruit in this world.”
“Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.”

Source : Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.98, Scholastic Inc.
“The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.”

Source : Leonard E. Read (1990). “The freedom philosophy”, Foundation for Economic Education
“If you're a good experienced player, you wknow what it takes to do. If you're in trouble, you know how to change. One hundred percent of my game is instinct. I never stop and think I'm going to hit a ball crosscourt or down the line. I just do it.”

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