"Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole."

-- Edith Stein

#Unity Quotes #Abstract Quotes #Concrete Quotes

“Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.”
“When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.”

Source : Interview with Stephen J. Dubner, 'Freakonomics Radio' podcast, March 24, 2010.
“I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.”
“What motivates me is everything that I have been a small part of.”
“In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.”

Source : "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.
“To me, I read good reviews in lots of papers and bad reviews in lots of papers.”

Source : "HBO Docs President Sheila Nevins Talks West Memphis Three, New Oscar Rules, Sundance, Abramovic". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2012.
“What interests me about thoughts is not the moment when it crystallises into formal ideas but its earlier stages.”
“I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won”

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