"One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive."

-- Hannah Arendt

#Twenties Quotes #Facts Quotes #Advantage Quotes

“One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.”
“I am the only one who can make America truly great again!”
“My wife converted me to religion. I never believed in hell until I married her.”
“I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.”
“There is no reason not to consider the world as one gigantic painting,”

Source : Robert Rauschenberg, Paul Schimmel, Thomas E. Crow, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (2005). “Robert Rauschenberg: combines”, Steidl / Edition7L
“"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."”
“Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.”
“While there may not be spiritual oppression involved in your battle [against lust], there'll always be opposition. The enemy is constantly near your ear. He doesn't want you to win this fight, and he knows the lies that so often break a man's confidence and his will to win. Expect to hear lies and plenty of them. satan's lie: 'You're the only one dealing with this problem. If anyone ever finds out, you'll be the laughingstock of the church!' The truth: Most men deal with this problem, so no one will laugh.”

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