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“A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.”
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“I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair”
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“I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.”
Source : Gene Perret (2001). “Grandchildren Are So Much Fun We Should Have Had Them First”, Arizona Highways
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“If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.”
Source : "Performance artist Marina Abramović: 'I was ready to die'" By Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2014.
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“No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.”
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“The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.”
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“There's nothing more fundamentally disruptive to the status quo than a new reality.”
Source : "From The Vault: Umair Haque: Redefining How We Measure Economic Growth". Interview with Dylan Ratigan, www.dylanratigan.com. December 2011.
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“Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.”