"It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history."

-- Louise J. Kaplan

#Inspiration Quotes #Animal Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.”

Source : N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.11, Cambridge University Press
“The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.”

Source : Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.
“The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.”
“No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”
“For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.”
“I hate people who cry around me. I'm not friends with them anymore. Especially girls. Cuz girls are crying all the time. It's like, 'Shut up.'”
“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”
“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.”

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

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