"The order and harmony of the Western world, its most famous achievement, and a laboratory in which structures of a complexity as yet unknown are being fashioned, demand the elimination of a prodigious mass of noxious by-products which now contaminate the globe. The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind."

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Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.44, Penguin

Claude Levi-Strauss

#Order Quotes #Achievement Quotes #World Quotes

“My only model for being a father was my father, an illiterate on the margin of society.”

Source : "Depardieu family values" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2003.
“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”
“Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .”
“Knowing a deep thing well, which is what science asks of its practitioners, is an empowerment that is very profound. It's a liberation.”
“You need a stubborn belief in an idea in order to see it realised.”
“I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.”
“Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.”
“First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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