"A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death"

-- Robert M. Hutchins

#Civilization Quotes #Issues Quotes #Important Quotes

“Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.”
“I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.”
“Obama has not accomplished a key mission: sell his own successes and keep his own (political) troops fired up and ready to go.”

Source : "Election 2014: Obama’s Failure to Communicate" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. November 5, 2014.
“It's really hard to grow with another person.”
“That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.”
“We create our future, by well improving present opportunities: however few and small they be.”
“The greatest thing about playing obviously is winning, and you can't replace that experience with anything.”
“Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.”

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