"Irrespective of any external, regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss."

-- Emile Durkheim

#Feelings Quotes #Force Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.”
“A word must become a friend or you will not understand it. Perhaps you do well to be cool and detached when you are seeking information, but I remind you of the wife who complained, 'When I ask John if he loves me, he thinks I am asking for information'.”
“It was not until I started racing for car manufacturers that I found a car I could really get attached to. I am the son of a car dealer, so up until then, cars just came and went.”
“Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.”
“Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.”
“If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.”
“The Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board is established in 1946 in an effort to discover the cause of the brown cloud hanging over the city and decide how to combat and disperse it. In 1949, after intense lobbying from both the automobile and oil industries, and against the recommendations and position of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control Board, the public rail system, which at one time was the largest in the world, and still serves a majority of the city's population, is decommissioned and torn out. It is replaced by a small fleet of buses.”
“During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.”

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