"We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form."

-- George Spencer-Brown

#Ideas Quotes #Drawing Quotes #Form Quotes

“I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.”

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“No matter how physically faint, a photograph involuntarily whisper of something exquisitely carnal. The weeks, the years, whatever stretches of time separating our present from the photographs retire into the transparence of the shot and seem erased by it. We almost have to shake ourselves to overcome the feeling that we peer out at the other place, in that different age. Yet we are always aware of this illusory dislocation, for such is the ambiguity, in principle, that seduces us over and over again in the photographic experience.”
“We practically own everything in the Philippines.”
“Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.”
“He was already looking at their relationship through the lens of the past tense. It puzzled her, the ability of romantic love to mutate, how quickly a loved one could become a stranger. Where did the love go? Perhaps real love was familial, somehow, linked to blood, since love for children did not die as romantic love did.”
“Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.”
“As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.”
“One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century.”

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