"I tried to oppose the academic to the marketplace."

-- Ad Reinhardt

#Opposites Quotes #Academic Quotes #Marketplace Quotes

“In space, you can't see the borders. It doesn't look like a map. We're all like kids fighting in a sandbox, on the political and human side of it. The International Space Station was built in orbit. Each piece hurtled into space at eight kilometres per second. From an engineering point of view, it's madness. It's also a feat of policy - Russia, the U.S., Germany and Japan working together. Do you realize what that means? These countries were sending nukes to each other a generation ago. Space does that. It gives us that amazing big picture.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“If I'm over a song two weeks after I made it, I'm not going to put it out. It has to last months.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The law of flotation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things. Rather, it was discovered by thinking about things that float naturally.”
“A civilized society looks with horror upon the abuse and torture of children or adults. Even where capital punishment is practiced, the aim is to implement it as mercifully as possible. Are we to believe then that a holy God-our heavenly Father-is less just than the courts of men?”
“[Lenin] might have become a Maoist in the sense of attacking the party and bombarding the party headquarters out of necessity to change the whole thing around.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I've long been interested in looking at the culture of consumerism and also was interested in this connection between the American dream and the house, and the house being kind of the ultimate expression of self and success.”

Source : "Lauren Greenfield, Director of ‘The Queen of Versailles’". "Art Beat" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 27, 2012.
“As for Kim Jong-un, first of all, he tried to kill his half brother in 2012, and according to South Koreans, the half brother, Kim Jong-nam actually wrote a letter to Kim Jong-un pleading with him not to do that anymore.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'”

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