"We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men."

-- Edward Abbey

#Men Quotes #Space Quotes #Phrases Quotes

“The speaker must choose a comprehensible [verstandlich] expression so that speaker and hearer can understand one another.”

Source : "Critical Heuristics of Social Planning: A New Approach to Practical Philosophy". Book by Werner Ulrich, 1983.
“A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.”
“Writing is not a serious business. Itâ€™s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.”
“The dearest things I know are what you are.”
“Good listeners are perceived as good conversationalists.”
“I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness. That's why what you're seeing now in this administration. I don't think they care for this country. And I think they're trying to make it into some kind of third-world socialistic cesspool. I think they are willing to get in bed with any dictator or despotic ruler that they see.”
“There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.”
“People always ask me to list my greatest accomplishments, expecting me to rattle off a bunch of movies I've made, but what I'm proudest of is my kids.”

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