"Lincoln was not great because he was born in a log cabin, but because he got out of it"

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Source : James Truslow Adams (2017). “The Epic of America”, p.262, Routledge

James Truslow Adams

#Inspiration Quotes #Log Cabins Quotes #Cabins Quotes

“Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom.”
“Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order properly to satisfy our curiosity we will inevitably rely on one or more of them. So, either we squelch our curiosity or we will have to fall into the circularity or regress to which the skeptic objects.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I couldn't sell pills no more [because my] homie went to jail. I was just dirt broke. I went to TDE and was literally living in the studio where you record. I went damn near a whole two years not getting sleep because there was always somebody there recording. I was taking baths with dishwashing liquid.I was one of the dudes [who] would never ask for nothing so I would never ask for soap.”

Source : Source: www.vibe.com
“Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.”

Source : "Globalization and After". Book edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely, 2006.
“When you have kids, I think it makes them feel safer and be in a space to grow more and recognize patterns when routines exist.”
“If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.”

Source : Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.415, Random House
“I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in my career, I asked myself, "What is that difference?" I started looking at the way that a figure in the foreground works in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings and saw how much has to do with what the figure owns or possesses. I wanted to break away from that sense in which there's the house, the wife, and the cattle, all depicted in equal measure behind the sitter.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com

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