"The real people who hold our civilization together are the maintenance people. If it weren't for them - pumping water out of subways, painting bridges to keep from rusting, fixing a steam pipe that is 70 years old - we'd be sunk. If we got rid of all the politicians and the policymakers in the world, the world would keep going. If you get rid of maintenance people, the whole thing breaks down."

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Alan Weisman

#Real Quotes #Years Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.”

Source : "No rules in Bollywood: Irrfan Khan" by Purva Desai |, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. January 24, 2013.
“Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”
“Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself.”

Source : "Death Note". Manga by Tsugumi Ohba, 2003-2006.
“History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.”
“The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies.”

Source : Robert Burns (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Burns (Illustrated)”, p.412, Delphi Classics
“The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object...”
“I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.”
“When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.”

Source : Robert Venturi, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1977). “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture”, p.41, The Museum of Modern Art

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