"When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us."

-- Aimee Bender

#Light Quotes #Self Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.”
“A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too.”

Source : Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.78, Penguin
“I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.”
“Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART.”

Source : Caroline Tisdall, Joseph Beuys (1979). “Joseph Beuys”
“You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.”
“To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.”
“Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.”
“Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.”

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