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“We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.”
Source : Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin (2011). “The Glass Bathyscaphe: How Glass Changed the World”, p.4, Profile Books
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“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
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“Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.”
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“That whole shoulder length hair thing is a thing!”
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“I feel comfortable tweeting things that I would never feel comfortable saying in a real life conversation, or even in other places on the internet.”
Source : "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, logger.believermag.com. July 2, 2014.
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“Trees are extraordinary revelations of the spirit in nature. And, given the multitude of ways that trees and their products benefit and enrich human culture, they are an especially appropriate symbol of the interdependence of spirit and nature.”
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“Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”
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“Etiquette can be at the same time a means of approaching people and of staying clear of them.”
Source : David Riesman (1950). “The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character”