"The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition."

-- Susanne Katherina Langer

#Culture Quotes #City Life Quotes

“Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.109, Da Capo Press
“If you are really working on something intensely, your social skills fall away and you are not fit to be brought out into public.”

Source : Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
“Sometimes @BrookeShields rolls into your party dressed as a Christmas tree, carrying a bucket of KFC.Â pic.twitter.com/DTtZkZY4cB”
“It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.”
“I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself to be swayed by indignation. If he sees suffering, privation or injustice he must not allow it to move him, for that would be evidence of the lack of proper education or of absence of self-control. He must speak in calm and objective accents and talk about a dying child in the same way as he would about the pieces inside an internal combustion engine.”
“For me, there has never been one definition of beauty. I think we all have something to offer and when beauty shines from within, there can be no denying it”
“To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.”

Source : Susan Sontag (1978). “On photography”, Delta
“What starting your company means: you will lose your stable income, your right to apply for a leave of absence, and your right to get a bonus. However, it also means your income will no longer be limited, you will use your time more effectively, and you will no longer need to beg for favours from people anymore.”

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