"The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy."

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Michelangelo

#Character Quotes #Taste Quotes #Needs Quotes

“May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions.”
“I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.”

Source : "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.
“Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive”
“If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.”
“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.”
“If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on.”
“As is always the case when peace takes precedence over liberty, neither is achieved.”
“It isn't the initial cost of a lie, it is the upkeep which counts so terribly.”

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