"m doing my best" "no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears"

-- Christopher Paolini

“Noise is manufactured in the city, just as goods are manufactured. The city is the place where noise is kept in stock, completely detached from the object from which it came.”

Source : Max Picard (1952). “The World of Silence”
“If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.”
“A student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison spent 90 days technology free. He went without a cell phone, Facebook, Twitter, or any social media of any kind. And you know what really improved? His driving!”
“I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.”
“Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.”
“Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesnâ€™t like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.”
“Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.”
“Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.”

Source : John Grierson, Ian Lockerbie, John Grierson Archive (1990). “Eyes of democracy”, Grierson Archive

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