"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."

-- Mary Douglas

#Personality Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Living Alone Quotes

“We exhort the compromisers to open their hearts to truth, to free themselves of their wretched and blind circumspection, of their intellectual arrogance, and of the servile fear which dries up their souls and paralyzes their movements.Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternal source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!”
“There is something marvelously soft in the study of nature which attaches a name to every being, a thought to every name, affection and memories to every thought.”
“When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; youll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.”

Source : "Quotes of the day: Cameron Sinclair". www.cnn.com. July 11, 2008.
“â€¦ the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.”
“And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War - and part of the winning side of the Cold War.”
“It's very clear from Biblical history and Jewish history that Jewish monotheism wasn't developed in an instant, that it became gradually the accepted norm. But undoubtedly, Jewish ancestors were polytheists.”
“Working at Pixar you learn the really honest, hard way of making a great movie, which is to surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you, much more talented than you, and incite constructive criticism; you'll get a much better movie out of it.”
“They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.”

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