"Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice."

-- Steven Pinker

#Agreement Quotes #Community Quotes #Choices Quotes

“If you think that you are where you are just because you worked hard, it is easy to become self-righteous and make classist moral judgments about others.”

Source : Charlotte Bunch, Nancy Myron (1974). “Class and feminism: a collection of essays from the Furies”
“I feel like when I fight it's an art, and Art isn't supposed to be 'nice', it isn't supposed to be liked. It's supposed to make you feel something.”
“My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together like one big huge family, people don't want that. They want isolation or a tribal thing.”
“People in the East looked toward the West with longing. They would have liked to have the same comforts, the same goods, the same chances. They saw a system that demanded of them sacrifices with nothing but promises for the future.”
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
“The good old days were never that good, believe me. The good new days are today, and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.”
“The only sin is the sin of being born”
“Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”

Source : Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.162, Macmillan

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