"I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself."

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Source : Meditaciones del Quijote "Lector" (1914)

Jose Ortega y Gasset

#Environment Quotes #Surroundings Quotes #Latter Quotes

“A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.”

Source : "Some Blues for Mr. Charlie: Obama’s Moment of Truth" by Rev. Peter Laarman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2008.
“Iâ€™ve lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.”
“At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.”
“I mean, who wants to trudge through life, doing everything just right? Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.”
“Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.”

Source : Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.22
“When I read the script sometimes, it's like 'Christ! Enough!' I can't sleep at night sometimes. There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Look - There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.”
“Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.”

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