"It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare."

-- Aldus Manutius

#Country Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Matter Quotes

“No other serial publications carry a number on them that is of any weight to their readership. The number is there to serve a function, but it has no intrinsic value in and of itself. It's comfort food and nostalgia at best. On this, we follow what you and your fellow readers do more than what you say. We hear complaints about renumbering every time we do it, but every time we do it it results in higher sales, which is the whole ballgame - so if it were your time and your effort, what would you do?”
“Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.”
“Always be who YOU are, be self-aware, and love yourself tremendously!”
“The individual protests against the world, but he doesn't get beyond protest, he is just a single protester. When he wants to be more than that, he has to counter power with power, he has to oppose the system with another system.”
“I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.”

Source : Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf
“I wasn't tempted to have my private parts decorated.”
“I always used to reach for the cigarette when the phone rang, and I figured nobody would ever call me in Tokyo. The time difference is so profound it's, like, already September in Tokyo, and I figured nobody would be able to work it out.”
“My sympathies have always been for working-class people.”

Source : Jerome Liebling, Carroll T. Hartwell, Ken Burns, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Photographers' Gallery (1995). “The people, yes”

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