"We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving."

-- Robert Musil

#Dream Quotes #Moving Quotes #Reality Quotes

“That which is provable, ought not to be believed in science without proof.”
“Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.”
“Alone among businesses, the fossil-fuel industry is allowed to dump its main waste, carbon dioxide, for free”
“The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!”
“If I were inclined to worry that the United States was veering in a dangerously theocratic direction, here's a short list of things I wouldn't fret about: a reality television program depicting the lives of ordinary Americans; a clause in a contract between parties to a business transaction agreeing that any disputes that arise between them be resolved in compliance with shared religious principles; halal soup; halal turkeys on the Thanksgiving table.”
“And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.”
“The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.”
“We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land.”

Source : "Sebastião Salgado in Siberia" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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