#dim

I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview. ↗

— Ben Harper

#diminishing #get #i #interview #myself

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#considering #control #dimension #everything #highest

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi. ↗

— Beth Henley

#alone #christmas #class #dime #i

You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ↗

— George Herman

#club #dime #greatest #individual #may

Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#believe #celebrities #celebrity #comfortably #committing

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#consider #human #human body #human mind #mind

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#expanded #ideas #larger #mind #never

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#idea #mind #never #new #new idea

Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#dimensions #goes #idea #man #mind

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy? ↗

— Bell Hooks

#color #columbus #contemporary #dimensions #especially