"Iâ€™m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. Thatâ€™s irrelevant. I donâ€™t judge myself or my friends by their fashions. Of course, I donâ€™t approve of people who are sloppy and unnecessarily shabby or dishevelledâ€¦ But Iâ€™m not impressed by a US$5,000 or US$10,000 Armani suit."

-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Fashion Quotes #People Quotes #Judging Quotes

“Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us....”
“We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.”

Source : Christopher Dawson (2001). “Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.176, CUA Press
“I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.”
“I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.”
“I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.”

Source : Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
“Go back and take a look at what some black writers were saying in the 1820s, the 1830s. They make mention of how some white people would tell their children, if you don't behave, we're going to put you in the n - - seat. If you don't behave, we are going to make you sit with the n - - s. That's why we know that, by then, the word had become a slur.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion of water into vapour, is not lost, but is retained in vapour, and indicated by its expansive form, although it does not affect the thermometer. This heat emerges again from this vapour when it becomes water, and recovers its former quality of affecting the thermometer; in short, it appears again as the cause of heat and expansion.”
“The theme of the diary is always the personal, but it does not mean only a personal story: it means a personal relationship to all things and people. The personal, if it is deep enough, becomes universal, mythical, symbolic; I never generalize, intellectualise. I see, I hear, I feel. These are my primitive elements of discovery. Music, dance, poetry and painting are the channels for emotion. It is through them that experience penetrates our bloodstream.”

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