"An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure."

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Source : Mark Van Doren (1954*). “Man's right to knowledge and the free use thereof”

Mark Van Doren

#Insecure Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Errors Quotes

“I'm not a big fan of violent movies, it's not something I like to watch. And it's not my aim or goal to make a violent movie. My characters are very important, so when I'm trying to depict a certain character in my movie, if my character is violent, it will be expressed that way in the film. You cannot really deny what a character is about. To repeat, my movie end up becoming violent, but I don't start with the intent of making violent movies.”
“Who loves â€” lives, who lives - works, and who works has some bread.”
“Don't even mention losing to me. I can't stand to think of it”
“If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.”
“A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.”
“Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.”
“A society which denies the heart its role becomes, in very short order, a heartless society.”
“The playful search for beauty.”

Source : Eva Zeisel, Margaret Carney (1999). “Lost Molds and Found Dinnerware: Rediscovering Eva Zeisel's Hallcraft : New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York : February 11, 1999-September 9, 1999”

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