"Alteration is a constructive act, not a destructive one, and it's the opposite of most of our impulses."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Dario Robleto

#Opposites Quotes #Impulse Quotes #Constructive Quotes

“And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.”
“Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a person's obligations or opportunities to speak about some topic exceed his knowledge of the facts that are relevant to that topic. This discrepancy is common in public life, where people are frequently impelled-whether by their own propensities or by the demands of others - to speak extensively about matters of which they are to some degree ignorant.”
“Flexibility makes buildings to be stronger, imagine what it can do to your soul.”
“No man is broken because bad things happen to him. Heâ€™s broken because he doesnâ€™t keep going after those things happen.”

Source : Courtney Milan (2011). “Unraveled”, p.108, Courtney Milan
“I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.”
“Foreign correspondence has a natural element of romanticism - and this could be seen as soon as that class of professional reporter emerged in the last half of the 19th century.”

Source : "The Romance and Reality of Foreign Reporting". Interview with Jack Shafer, www.slate.com. December 29, 2009.
“The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.”

Source : "The enduring American press: texts of talks given by a panel of distinguished journalists and scholars at a symposium marking the 200th anniversary of the Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connecticut". Book by The Hartford Courant, 1964.
“My futureâ€™s so bright, I gotta wear shades.”

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