"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."

-- Manuel Puig

#Way Quotes #Environment Quotes #Individual Quotes

“There is nothing original; all is reflected light.”
“Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.”
“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”
“The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”
“I grew up in Beaufort, South Carolina, in a six-room farmhouse with a couple of leaning posts to keep it from fallin'. I came up in a time when men were men.”
“The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness, beauty and dignity, and to describe how the incessant efforts and accumulated genius of many generations have built up that magnificent monument, the object of our most legitimate pride as men, and of our wonder, humility and thankfulness, as individuals. The study of the history of mathematics will not make better mathematicians but gentler ones, it will enrich their minds, mellow their hearts, and bring out their finer qualities.”

Source : George Sarton (1936). “The study of the history of mathematics and the study of the history of science”
“When I work on a piece I always think if there is an abundance of male characters which one could we change to a woman or a minority character.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When I came out of the military, I had a club in Memphis and I started using the The Bar Kays as my club band. They were still only in the middle school - but I'd take them on the road with me on the weekends, sometimes.”

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