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Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress. ↗

— Thorstein Veblen

#born #ceased #conceived #dissension #distress

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today. ↗

— Mika Waltari

#errors #ever #fancying #foolish #future

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#after #me #more #new #punk

Sometimes it can be bad to have too much family. Everybody gets involved in your problems, giving their opinion, gossiping, and making drama. But when bad things happen, they will be there to support you. ↗

— Sofia Vergara

#drama #everybody #family #gets #giving

I've never been a calm, midrange type person. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#calm #i #never #person #type

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips. ↗

— Scott Walker

#attrition #government #i #layoffs #massive

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#ago #blank #down #empowering #exist

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#absolutely #always #anything #asked #bands

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#perfect #singer #you

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. ↗

— Bill Veeck

#attitude #audience #baseball #crowd #distinctive