"No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Writing Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Language Quotes

“The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.”
“You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.”
“In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.”
“On offense, you can fumble and they still talk about you.”
“There's something insane about this business - about the cycle of making albums and going on tour to promote them.”
“Fearless people are interesting to watch.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2011.
“Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.”
“The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.”

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