"I am surprised to see that today everything that does not amount to surrender pure and simple to generalized capitalism, let us call it thus, is considered to be archaic or old-fashioned, as though in a way there existed no other definition of what it means to be modern than, quite simply, to be at all times caught in the dominant forms of the moment."

-- Alain Badiou

#Mean Quotes #Simple Quotes #Today Quotes

“Cal â€™s eyes reflected a weird combination of frenzy and fear as he twisted toward his father. â€œMy God! Sheâ€™s on her way to becoming the most famous physicist in the country, and sheâ€™sdumb as a post ! You arenot having your baby in this house! Youâ€™re having it at the county hospital!”
“It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.”
“...for though she was ordinary, she possessed health, wit, courage, charm, and cheerfulness. But because she was not beautiful, no one ever seemed to notice these other qualities, which is so often the way of the world.”
“Joy bubbles on a fountain of doubt.”
“Empathy is the poor man's cocaine, and love is just a chemical by any other name”
“The #â€Ž poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.”
“Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.”

Source : Samuel Adams (1906). “The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773”
“The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.”

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