"If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize."

-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#People Quotes #Choices Quotes #Together Quotes

“THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.”
“As a baby, Bret Hart was so ugly that they had to put tinted windows on his incubator!”
“To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples...”
“As someone with a deep faith in competition and the market, I also know that markets only work with tough enforcement of the rules that guarantee competition and fair play - and that the pressure to break those rules only gets stronger as the amount of money involved gets larger.”
“We must destroy all which in the present school answers to the organization of constraint, the artificial surroundings by which children are separated from nature and life, the intellectual and moral discipline made use of to impose ready-made ideas upon them, beliefs which deprave and annihilate natural bent.”
“Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.”

Source : Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
“Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.”
“My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.”

Source : Jeff Koons, Eckhard Schneider, Rudolf Sagmeister (2001). “Jeff Koons”, Kunsthaus Bregenz

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