Quotes
Authors
Alain de Botton

"Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities."

-- Alain de Botton

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“What I like about electronic music is you don't really need to be that learned or educated in any particular context. You can just make sound, noise even, whatever it may be.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Some people are willing to pay the price and it's the same with staying healthy or eating healthy. There's some discipline involved. There's some sacrifices.”
“If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different. IF we put any resource depletion into costs our bottom line would change. So what we have is a dishonest market that does not take into account all the costs when it establishes its prices. We need an honest marketplace before we can let the market work for sustainability rather than against it as it works today.”
“Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.”

Source : "Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921". Book by Carl V. Harris, 1977.
“I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down”

Source : John Clare (1908). “Poems by John Clare”
“Love is a positive effect. Love can never have a negative effect, only a positive effect.”
“In todayâ€™s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms.”
“If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world.”

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