"Wonderful, I like cars, too, I like all the great things you can buy in a department store. But when you have to buy them in order to stay unaware, comatose, then the price you pay is too high."

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Source : "Audiovisions: Cinema and Television as Entr'actes in History". Book by Siegfried Zielinski, 1999.

Gudrun Ensslin

#Order Quotes #Car Quotes #Pay Quotes

“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers.”
“In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.”

Source : Lynn Arthur Steen (2004). “Achieving Quantitative Literacy: An Urgent Challenge for Higher Education”, p.41, MAA
“The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams.”
“While this may look loving, when we struggle with an idol of dependence, weâ€™re in fact not loving people as much as weâ€™re using them to fulfill our need to belong, be liked, and be desired. This explains why some friends and family members can be so demanding, smothering, and needy. It also explains why weâ€™re so easily inflated by praise and deflated by criticism. Itâ€™s as if others have the ability to determine our identity for that day based on a word or even a glance”
“I abide by a rule concerning reviews: I will never ask, neither in writing nor in person, that a word be put in about my book.... One feels cleaner this way. When someone asks that his book be reviewed he risks running up against a vulgarity offensive to authorial sensibilities.”
“There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important.”
“It is very difficult to stop feeling.”
“The appetite is sharpened by the first bites.”

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