"Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind."

-- Flora Thompson

#Mind Quotes #Needs Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.”

Source : Andy Clark (2004). “Natural-born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA
“Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.”
“There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.”
“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”

Source : "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.
“There'll be spring every year without you. England still will be here without you.”
“History ... with its long, leisurely, gentlemanly labors, the books arriving by post, the cards to be kept and filed, the sections to be copied, the documents to be checked, is the ideal pursuit for the New England mind.”
“The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1872). “The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle”, p.4
“Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.”

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