"There are over 2 million cars standing in front of red lights with their engines going. Then we have over 2 million times approximately 100 horsepower being generated as they are idling there, so that we have something like 200 million horses jumping up and down and going nowhere. Now, we have to count that in our economy when we begin to get down to what is the efficiency of the economy."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Horse Quotes #Light Quotes #Jumping Quotes

“I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.”
“I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.”
“There are laws of nature - of course there are - even if they don't exist in some sort of bizarre Platonic Heaven.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“If you put your politicians up for sale, as the US does (alone in this among industrialized democracies), then someone will buy them--and it wonâ€™t be you; you canâ€™t afford them.”
“Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word”
“Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally.”
“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself”
“Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.”

Source : George Plimpton (1967). “Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews”

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