"We chart delusions through collective agreement."

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Agreement Quotes #Delusion Quotes #Collectives Quotes

“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.”

Source : Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams
“Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.”
“Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.”

Source : Nancy Atherton (1998). “Aunt Dimity's Good Deed”, p.152, Penguin
“... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation of their fellows, I posit the "banality of heroism," which unfurls the banner of the heroic Everyman and Everywoman who heed the call to service to humanity when their time comes to act. When that bell rings, they will know that it rings for them. It sounds a call to uphold what is best in human nature that rises above the powerful pressures of Situation and System as the profound assertion of human dignity opposing evil.”
“To me, cases like that really scream out, 'Hey, it's not out there. It's in here.' There's no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.”

Source : "The Science Of Sexual Orientation". "60 Minutes" with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. March 9, 2006.
“I love Paris - it's one of my favorite cities - and so to shoot a video in Paris was a dream come true.”
“The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.”

Source : Eric Sevareid (1964). “This is Eric Sevareid”
“The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you.”

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