"The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth."

-- James Farley

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“The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.”

Source : "The Metropolis and Modern Life" by Georg Simmel (1903), translated by Kurt Wolff in "The Sociology of Georg Simmel" edited by D. Weinstein, New York: Free Press, (p. 422), 1950.
“The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.”

Source : "Voyage Across the Stars".
“You can't carry the world on yer shoulders, broad as they are.”
“Only 3 percent of people in the DRC use condoms.”
“Respect people with less power then you. I don't care if you're the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.”

Source : Tim Minchin's Commencement Address at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, www.timminchin.com. September 25, 2013.
“All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.”
“I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.”
“I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.”

Source : The AD100 Architectural Digest, v. 57 #1, p. 48, January 2000.

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