"The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work."

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David Riesman

#Work Quotes #Artist Quotes #Class Quotes

“One cannot be avenged for every wrong; according to the occasion, everyone who knows how, must use temperance.”
“Editing and selectivity are processes that provide the first steps in determining and conveying content.”
“Be - fight - feel the pain - and love the wounds!”

Source : "Vox Posthuma". Poem by Antoni Lange, 1895.
“It is said that insincere apologies can be detected while heart-felt apologies melt away all grievances, anger and hatred. Felt with all my heart I'm sooo sorry Apologies Sorry Soz so so So Sorry”
“Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert A. Caro from Jan 12, 2012
“Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach in piecemeal terms, through blind connections, is or is not adequate to interpret actual thought processes and the role of the past experience as well. Past experience has to be considered thoroughly, but it is ambiguous in itself; so long as it is taken in piecemeal, blind terms it is not the magic key to solve all problems.”
“It's definitely a challenge, but it's even more than that. Beyond the basic need to understand what you're saying, a computer needs to understand what you're trying to do. So humans talking to computers present variable challenges.”

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