"Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take aesthetic communication, and aesthetic pleasure, seriously. We, their customers, demand it."

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Source : Virginia Postrel (2009). “The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness”, p.4, Harper Collins

Virginia Postrel

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“I usually like to keep to myself, but others can tell if I'm upset because I'm keeping to myself.”

Source : "Allen Evangelista – Project Almanac Actor: Maintaining Perspective". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.”

Source : Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2012.
“Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.”
“Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.”
“When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.”
“We are living in a world that is in the late stage of a Caterpillar. It is very important to let go of the old and start to gravitate to the new because we are leaving behind a world that is no longer sustainable and moving into a world in which we can thrive.”

Source : "Risky business" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
“If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.”
“Poetry and painting have arrived to their perfection in our own country; music is yet but in its nonage [immaturity], a forward Child, which gives hope of what it may be hereafter in England, when the masters of it shall find more Encouragement.”

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