"We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under the division of labor is more productive than when performed in isolation."

-- Ludwig von Mises

#Civilization Quotes #Culture Quotes #Division Quotes

“Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.”
“I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.”
“In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.”
“I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.”
“Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose.”
“The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them, ... I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.”

Source : The Olympian, October 04, 2005.
“The practice is to make the non-arising of grasping and clinging absolute, final, and eternally void, so that no grasping and clinging can ever return. Just that is enough. There is nothing else to do.”
“The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.”

Source : Martin Gardner (2006). “Aha! A Two Volume Collection: Aha! Gotcha Aha! Insight”, p.176, MAA

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