"Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people."

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Edward Ruscha

#Fall Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.”
“Many of my personal enemies picture me as a cold type - a person who acts according to a certain line, a calculating type.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“Science is not always what scientists do.”
“There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.”
“The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.”
“The past is never completely lost, however extensive the devastation. Your sorrows are the bricks and mortar of a magnificent temple. What you are today and what you will be tomorrow are because of what you have been.”
“The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.”
“There's Hobbes, who understood in the 1640s that the sovereign is not an appointee of God, or even a figure of superior virtue and wisdom, but just a functional device whose role is to keep people from hurting and killing each other.”

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