"The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place."

-- Claude Bissell

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“The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.”
“The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.584, Simon and Schuster
“Mr. President, we've taken off our "Kick Me" sign.”
“I'm a huge fan of burgers, and they're not my wife's favorite, so we don't cook them at home.”

Source : "Chatting with Jose Garces". www.philly.com. October 8, 2009.
“In every human being there is a special heaven, whole and unbroken.”

Source : Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.224, Basic Books
“You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.”
“Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.”
“Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.”

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