"Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community."

-- Kim Edwards

#Community Quotes #Understanding Quotes #Woven Quotes

“Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.”
“Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.”
“My hate of Apple has moved into a hate of Facebook.”
“Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.”
“It's not great if someone gives you sort of bland praise without giving you clear direction and say, "This is good, let's try it like this." I have worked with someone who seemed quite inarticulate and just would say, "That's good, that's good." That's very frustrating because - it's nice to know something is good but you know it can always change.”
“Most every dental school has discount dental services.”
“Now thatâ€™s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert to stop me.”
“Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.”

Source : 'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 2 (11 December 1769)

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