"A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it."

-- Ursula K. Le Guin

#Believe Quotes #Play Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I guess you shouldn't smoke cigarettes and not eat.”
“When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.”
“So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place to be. It doesnâ€™t have to be one style. Weâ€™re not talking about style, weâ€™re talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.”
“I've been successful, and I'm grateful for that.”

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“We're losing film, especially in projection, we're losing a great achievement of civilization. A still image and darkness make up 50% of the experience. The still images become movement in your head. That's the magic of cinema.”

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“They say, "God told me", or "God replied to me". And yet most of the time they are talking to themselves.”
“Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!”
“People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior.”

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