"Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture."

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Jane Jacobs

#Writing Quotes #Giving Quotes #Culture Quotes

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
“I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.”
“I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.”
“Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.”
“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?”
“You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“When we realize we can stop being Jesus defenders, we can start being Jesus representatives .”

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