"I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built."

-- Ben Silbermann

#Ideas Quotes #Want Quotes #Analysis Quotes

“I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.”
“Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.”
“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2007). “Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922”, p.4, Rowman & Littlefield
“There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.294
“Money was their God; work their religion ...”
“I like to think of myself as 'hot-larious' I'm cute, but I'm totally approachable.”
“I try to love my neighbor as myself but I'm not trying to be a people pleaser. Sometimes that's hard, because my human nature is to want people to be happy with me. But sometimes I feel my convictions are so great that it would be compromising the truth if I didn't do that. So sometimes it's a struggle to say, "This is what I think; this is what I believe, and if you don't agree with me, oh well." The hardest thing for people to accept is the gay-affirming issue. It's hard for people to agree to disagree on that one.”

Source : "One Punk Under God". Interview With Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2006.
“Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.”

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