"In modern industrial society only minimal effort is necessary to satisfy one's physical needs."

-- Theodore Kaczynski

#Effort Quotes #Needs Quotes #Modern Quotes

“I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.”

Source : Harold Pinter (1977). “Complete works”
“The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?â€ Stannis snorted. â€œCeltigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.”
“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Source : "Odyssey". Book by Jack McDevitt, 2006.
“We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.”
“My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.”

Source : "Using My Passion To Help Find A Cure" by Evelyn Lauder, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2007.
“Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.”
“You're hungry for the infinite and the infinite is hungry for you.”

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