"France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything."

-- Adam Michnik

#Cowboy Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Culture Quotes

“The highest compact we can make with our fellow is - "Let there be truth between us two forevermore."”
“Goats," said Maxwell Hyde, "are a special case. Mad as hatters, all of them.”
“Do your practice and all is coming.”

Source : John Scott, Shri K. Pattabhi Jois (2000). “Ashtanga Yoga: The Definitive Step-by-step Guide to Dynamic Yoga”, Harmony Books
“Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.”
“Writing songs about it is a really useful way for me to love New York more, and stay observing it, and not just zone it out.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.”
“I'm just interested in meditating on certain ideas, and I like to draw: that's my way of thinking.”
“Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.”

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