"Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself means the uses of everything it has--the inventions, the histories, every scrap of fact. But there is one kind of knowledge--infinitely precious, time- resistant more than monuments, here to be passed between the generations in any way it may be: never to be used. And that is poetry."

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Muriel Rukeyser

#Knowledge Quotes #Mean Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations.”
“Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.”

Source : "Estelle Getty, ‘Golden Girls’ Matriarch, Dies at 84". The New York Times, July 23, 2008.
“Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.”
“I'm one of those people who have everything in their purses.”
“Leibniz believed in freedom, both divine and human, and he thought that contingency was a necessary condition of freedom. That is, if an agent A acts freely when choosing X, then A's choosing X cannot be necessary. But there are some elements in his philosophy that seem to make contingency impossible.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.”

Source : FaceBook post by Marlon Brando from Apr 11, 2012
“America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.”

Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, Chapter 1, Dead Stars, p. 11, 1989.

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