"The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning."

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Source : BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

Brendan Gill

#Summer Quotes #Morning Quotes #Order Quotes

“It's about reaching as many souls as I can through techno, speaking God's truth and his gospel to as many ears as I can, taking the message to the street.”
“Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.”
“Do not direct all your energies towards seeking pleasure but rather towards a sublime ideal. Your energies will then serve you and contribute to the realisation of your goal or ideal.”
“I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.”
“GDP tells you nothing about sustainability”
“I would rather make my name than inherit it.”
“When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.”
“Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual knowledge in the soul.”

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