"I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational."

-- Claude Levi-Strauss

#Thinking Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.”
“Know how to travel from your town to a nearby town without a car, either by bus or by rail.”
“When I see vegan food sold in single-use plastic containers, I get frustrated knowing that plastic is not really recycled; it is down-cycled to less and less reusable grades, and too much of it eventually ends up in the ocean - where it kills animals. Caring for animals means caring for the environment they live in, and vice versa.”
“Women find little pleasure in the society of women.”

Source : "Rival Caesars". Book by Arthur Desmond, 1903.
“To those who are given much, much is expected.”
“Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press
“I don't think there's a problem with being a teen idol, if that happens to me, I'll be happy to deal with it.”
“First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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