"Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Silence Quotes #Stupidity Quotes #Sake Quotes

“We have become aware of the responsibility for our attitude towards the dark pages in our history. We have understood that bad service is done to the nation by those who are impelling to renounce that past.”

Source : "How Poland once spoke about the Shoah" by Inna Rogatchi, www.israelnationalnews.com. February 28, 2018.
“The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.”
“It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.”
“Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.”

Source : Gyorgy Kepes (1965). “Education of Vision”, New York : G. Braziller
“Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.”
“But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.”
“A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.”
“I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.”

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