"Listening to something is an act of surrender."

-- Brian Eno

#Listening Quotes #Surrender Quotes

“There is large difference between indolent impatience of labor and intellectual impatience of delay, large difference between leaving things unfinished because we have more to do or because we are satisfied with what we have done.”
“There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.”
“There's never one "ding-dong" moment.You never know for sure if you're doing the right thing. Things don't end all at once.”
“What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.”

Source : Charles A. Murray (1984). “Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980”, p.188, Basic Books
“Worthless is the charity of the man who bestows it unwillingly, because material charity is not his, but God's gift, while only the disposition of the heart belongs to the man. This is why many charities prove almost worthless, for they were bestowed unwillingly, grudgingly, without respect for the person of our neighbor. So also the hospitality of many persons proves worthless because of their hypocritical vain-glorious behavior to their guests. Let us offer our sacrifices upon the altar of love to our neighbor, with heart-felt affection: 'for God loves a cheerful giver'”
“I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.”
“I am not political. It is not my job. But I would be happy if politicians could read my work and draw some conclusions from it.”
“Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.”

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