"All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product."

-- Samuel Smiles

#Men Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“The depersonalizati on of diagnosis and therapy has changed malpractice from an ethical into a technical problem.”
“Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.”
“There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.”
“I have turned down so many major advertising bids because I think either the time isn't right or I'm not.”
“I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?”
“And when people in power can stay in power they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power.”

Source : "The Voice of Voting Reform". Interview with Tim Dickinson, www.rollingstone.com. June 6, 2006.
“Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.”
“I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.”

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