"We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values."

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George Carlin

#Possession Quotes #Values Quotes

“The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market.”

Source : Daniel S. Greenberg (1999). “The Politics of Pure Science”, p.288, University of Chicago Press
“I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.”
“People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.”
“No one is wise by birth, for wisdom results from one own's efforts.”
“I hate to blow the mystique, but at the time we really liked bubblegum music, and we really liked the Bay City Rollers. Their song 'Saturday Night' had a great chant in it, so we wanted a song with a chant in it: 'Hey! Ho! Let's Go!'. 'Blitzkrieg Bop' was our 'Saturday Night'.”
“What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.”
“I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen”
“A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÃ•s a hero already.”

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