"Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone."

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Source : Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

Georg Simmel

#Fashion Quotes #Judging Quotes #Ugly Quotes

“Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.”
“Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours ...”

Source : Eliza Leslie (2011). “Selections from Eliza Leslie”, p.274, U of Nebraska Press
“Clean coal represents a breakthrough in the marketing of coal, but not in the science of burning coal.”
“Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesnâ€™t produce anything.”
“Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest.”

Source : "Holding Life Consciously". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. June 24, 2010.
“Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.161, Verso
“Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.”
“Do what you say you will do.”

Source : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, Jane Bozarth (2011). “Strengthening Credibility: A Leader's Workbook”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons

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