"Idealism is the highest form of reason."

-- John Charles Polanyi

#Reason Quotes #Form Quotes #Idealism Quotes

“I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs”
“In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had more of the political stuff that we just decided to wait on and put aside. A few weeks after the election, I stopped watching cable news and just unplugged. My way of dealing with the new situation we're in was to just work on something that I care about.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“People get very creative if you include them.”
“To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing to be fools ourselves than to have others so.”
“Including the value of natural resources and our social capital in national accounting is a vital step to achieve economic growth that is equitable and sustainable.”
“Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.”
“I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.”
“All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.”

Source : Song: This, Album: Charleston, SC 1966, 2010

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