"Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Men Quotes #Solitude Quotes #Personal Values Quotes

“And suddenly, I realized the system that I was in did not know what intelligence was, didn't know how to identify smart and not smart. They called me the best, when I knew I wasn't, and they called him the worst, when he was the best. I mean, there could be no more antipodal environment. So I began to question: What is intelligence? Who says? Who says you're smart? Who says you're not smart? And what do they mean by that?”
“My focus on silence is to be understood as an intrinsic part of the body's search for meaning amongst the noisy assaults of everyday life. ... What quilts have brought to the viewing of art generally is this intervening layer of silence, of collected thought and concerted attention.”

Source : Radka Donnell (1990). “Quilts as women's art: a quilt poetics”, Gallerie Pubns
“I really like the idea of music when it has form and then sort of loses its form, or becomes noise, and then comes back again... That's how I think of it: structure turning into noise and coming back around again.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common thread running through all the great religious expressions.”
“My jersey hanging from the ceiling is going to be a symbol of the hard work of the people I played with.”
“I might be an endangered species.”

Source : Song: Endangered Species
“In the case of all the carmakers, there's a certain amount of greenwash. Take Toyota: They were pushing the Prius while they were meanwhile marketing the hell out of the Sequoia and other models with terrible gas mileage.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The banker, therefore, is not so much primarily a middleman in the commodity "purchasing power" as a producer of this commodity. However, since all reserve funds and savings today usually flow to him, and the total demand for free purchasing power, whether existing or to be created, concentrates on him, he has either replaced private capitalists or become their agent; he has himself become the capitalist par excellence.”

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