"The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and wasteful."

-- Wendell Berry

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“If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract them from making a difference and becoming leaders.”
“In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.”
“The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.”
“Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.”
“Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.”

Source : Ettore Sottsass, Barbara Radice (1988). “Design metaphors”, Rizzoli International Publications
“No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.”
“You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.”
“You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.”

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