"We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside."

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Tom Hodgkinson

#Numbers Quotes #Lines Quotes #Obsessed Quotes

“I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.”
“To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one.”
“I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.”
“Every old poem is sacred.”
“Kurt Russell is amazing. He's really nice. He's really funny. He's really professional, and it's great to see him work and to see someone who's done so many movies and who's so down to earth, it's great. I feel really lucky.”
“I don't know if I'm addicted to fame; fame is more of an unpleasant circumstance of an addiction to creativity.”
“Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.”
“The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.”

Source : "Time". Book by Briton Hadden, p. 29, 1923.

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