"You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you."

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Source : "Living Our Values, Closing the Ethical Gap" by Jeffrey Rubin, bigthink.com.

Dallin H. Oaks

#Needs Quotes #Enough Quotes

“You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.”
“He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.”
“Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.”

Source : Joris-Karl Huysmans (1972). “L-bas (Down There).”, p.213, Courier Corporation
“The unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1965). “Damnés de la terre”, Grove Pr
“The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.”
“Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.”
“Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.16, Oxford University Press
“Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed...”

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