"Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell."

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Source : Renata Adler (1970). “Toward a radical middle: fourteen pieces of reporting and criticism”

Renata Adler

#People Quotes #Community Quotes #Quality Quotes

“It's a Wonderful Life. This film illustrates that if you treat your customers with respect, they will recognize you and even help when you're most in need.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.”
“The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind”
“I love disagreements. I love the democratic process. If I'm in a room where everybody agrees, I start to nod off.”
“TV and film both attract me equally. In both, you do search for a role that would be enjoyable to do, that has a great storyline and then, secondly, you look at the cast and the crew - are they respectable? How I look at it is my character - has the character got enough substance? It can't just be a one faced character, which is there to fill a gap. He has to have a purpose, so if it ticks all of those boxes then generally it's a good choice.”

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“To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.”

Source : Teju Cole (2011). “Open City”, p.192, Faber & Faber
“Veganism is simply letting compassion guide our choice of food. As such, it is a basic Buddhist practice that ought to be expected of everyone who takes refuge vows.”
“When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.”

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