"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule."

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Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

Georg Simmel

#Technique Quotes #Schedules Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.”

Source : "The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified?" by Mark Kermode, Romola Garai, Anna Smith and Nicci Gerrard, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.
“If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.”
“I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.”
“He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.”

Source : Laird Barron (2007). “The Imago Sequence”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“Right is that which is not your invention. It is already there. If you go away from it you are wrong, if you come...”
“Baseball gets better for whatever reason.”
“There is a calm for those who weep, A rest for weary pilgrims found, They softly lie and sweetly sleep Low in the ground.”

Source : Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.304
“What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.”

Source : "The Paradoxes of Legal Science". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1928.

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