"We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."

-- Judith Martin

#Positive Quotes #Society Quotes #Fit Quotes

“Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.”

Source : Hugh Black (1898). “Friendship”
“I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.”
“Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.”
“Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.”

Source : Piet Mondrian, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art (Washington, D.C.) (1965). “Piet Mondrian, 1872-1944: exhibition Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Washington Gallery of Modern Art”
“There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“The truth is that family values, as used by the American Family Association, Dan Quayle, and the southern Baptists, has nothing to do with either family or values, nor does it really have anything to do with homosexuals, abortionists, or pornographers. Those groups actually only serve as windmills to tilt at. The true agenda is power - power over the intellectually weak, emotionally immature, and ethically deficient Americans who are incapable of critical thinking and independent decision-making, and who are easily manipulated by the basest of human emotions - fear and the desire for revenge.”
“The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.”
“You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.”

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