"He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?"

--

Michael Ondaatje

“Football is the ballet of the masses.”
“In long term investments, you don't need day to day management.”
“As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.”
“As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually 'thinking' it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics the model of all neo-positivistic thinking lies in just this 'intellectual economy.' Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. ... Reason ... becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced.”

Source : "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (pp. 24-25), 1947.
“I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.”

Source : FaceBook post by Debbie Reynolds from Jul 01, 2013
“I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it.”
“I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.”
“I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.”

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