"We are apart and alone, as we must, but at least we are alone together."

-- Jason Lutes

#Wisdom Quotes #Fun Quotes #Together Quotes

“If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.”
“There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through every part of the state by means of proper places and modes of education and this can be done effectively only by the aid of the legislature.”
“One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.”
“The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.”
“I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic.”
“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants were put into operation, they were required to have double and triple redundant safety systems.”
“Art is the proper task of life.”
“What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.”

Source : Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.117, Beacon Press

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