"Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us."

-- Susan Meissner

#Able Quotes #Flaws Quotes #Divine Quotes

“apart from the seemingly magical Internet, life in broad material terms isn't so different from what it was in 1953... The wonders portrayed in 'The Jetsons,' the space-age television cartoon from the 1960s, have not come to pass... Life is better and we have more stuff, but the pace of change has slowed down...”
“From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.”
“I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was so easy for him to think fourth-dimensionally, dynamically. It wasn't just a static thing with him. In other words, it isn't the way an architect thinks, which is essentially static.”
“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”
“The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.143, University of Chicago Press
“You serve the best by doing what you love the most.”
“In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.”
“And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry...”

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