"I cannot understand a society that is more afraid of a man in a dress than a man in a soldierâ€™s uniform."

-- Joan Nestle

#Men Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Dresses Quotes

“Cities are the crucible of civilization.”

Source : Geoffrey West (2017). “Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies”, p.8, Penguin
“The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.”
“There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time.”
“Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.”

Source : Jeffrey Veen (1997). “Hot Wired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites”, Wired Books
“Hope is incredible to the slave of grief.”
“People are shuffling by in long coats, with shopping bags and takeout, smoking cigarettes and feigning laughter - filling up their lives with distractions to shut out the chaos.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 26, 2003.
“I have no problem with thinking small. Sometimes you have to think small first in order to think big.”
“I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.”

Source : Miriam Toews (2004). “A Complicated Kindness: A Novel”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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