"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."

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Source : Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

Max Lerner

#Civilization Quotes #Environmental Quotes #Cocoons Quotes

“I'm very interested in vertical space.I want the players to listen to their sound in such a way that they hear the complete sound they make before they make another one. So that means that they hear the tail of the sound. Because of the reverberation, there's always more to the sound than just the sound.”

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“What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century.”
“A man's kiss is his signature.”
“What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?”
“You can't use anxiety to deal with your anxiety it only makes you more anxious.”
“We lived in the attic, Christopher, Cory, Carrie, and me, Now there are only three.”
“But sir- we are a beginning democracy. If there were not strikes, this would not be a democracy.”
“I don't want to love you if you're only going to die.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.243, Penguin

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