"Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence."

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Source : Josef Pieper (1998). “Leisure, the Basis of Culture”, St Augustine PressInc

Josef Pieper

#Exclusion Quotes #World Quotes #Demand Quotes

“God Almighty, your ruined, and you didn't even eat the gingerbread.”
“Even chance meetings are the result of karmaâ€¦ Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events thereâ€™s no such thing as coincidence.”
“The only place you're sure to find love is at the end of a letter from your mother.”
“You hear this said about actors sometimes, that they're fearless, but she [ Maggie Gyllenhaal] really is.”
“Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. Today we must live a fresh story again.”
“I was in a commercial when I was three. My godfather was a director and a producer of commercials. He took me in along with his kids and I couldn't remember my lines. I giggled my way through the commercial and they kept it.”
“The body is an actor's tool, like the face, malleable. I never thought that being naked was immoral or outrageous.”
“The USA approach looks like bullying because it is.”

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