"I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else."

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Ben Nicholson

#Men Quotes #Agents Quotes #Instruments Quotes

“We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric, connected to and defined by the whole. Community is the human dimension of that fabric.”
“I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.”
“I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.”
“Protein is important and hard for me to get in a hurry. We're busy. I don't always remember to thaw the chicken for dinner. I always have eggs, and they're light and satisfying. I never feel stuffed at the end of it.”
“Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?”

Source : Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.”
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.”

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