"There are very important and practical issues raised by following this alternative route which says, lets look to material conditions, to the systems of production, to the needs that human beings have, and to competing alternative solutions to the satisfaction of those needs."

-- Marvin Harris

#Issues Quotes #Important Quotes #Needs Quotes

“While some part of the artwork may fail, the whole may have its own unique importance.”
“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.”

Source : "Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits". www.npr.org. May 20, 2008.
“Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.”
“Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.”
“I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.”

Source : "The Bittorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 1, 2005.
“Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great”
“We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.”
“The beginning is the most important part, especially when dealing with anything young and tender.”

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