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“Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.”
― Pretties
― Pretties
“To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand.”
― Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
― Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
“It's a fez. I wear a fez now. Fezes are cool.”
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“Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”
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“Beauty and art, no doubt, pervade all business of life like a kindly genius, and form the bright adornment of all our surroundings, both mental and material, soothing the sadness of our condition and the embarrassments of real life, killing time in entertaining fashion, and where there’s nothing to be achieved, occupying the place of what is vicious, better, at any rate, than vice.”
― Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
― Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
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