"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets."

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Source : Jonas Mekas (2016). “Movie Journal: The Rise of New American Cinema, 1959-1971”, p.70, Columbia University Press

Jonas Mekas

#Civilization Quotes #Politician Quotes #Poet Quotes

“Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?”
“In this world we've created Where this place that we live in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in Love lights the world Unites the love that's for eternity.”
“My kids! They run so hot and cold. One minute, I am in complete control and feeling like Supermom, then the next minute, my two-year-old is having a tantrum in line at the supermarket and is inconsolable, and I feel so helpless and I want to crawl in a hole.”

Source : "RHOBH’s Kristen Taekman: Parenting, Collaborating, Evolving". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.”
“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”

Source : Antonio Gramsci (2011). “Letters from Prison”, p.299, Columbia University Press
“A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with oneâ€™s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.”
“One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.”
“Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.”

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