#sm

What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#mere #scatter #smoke #wind #world

We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#communication #determined #form #hampered #inevitable

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy. ↗

— Ken Livingstone

#crazy #did #everyday #hitler #kills

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#enough #eroticism #individual #justification #me

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement. ↗

— John Byrne

#boy #dream #feel #find #i

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#another #imagine #man #mile #smell

Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism. ↗

— Andrew Lo

#consequence #crises #financial #financial crises #modern

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#attracted #been #conclusions #dazzling #draw

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. ↗

— Susan Neiman

#beauty #idealism #philosophy #art

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed. ↗

— Courtney Love

#being famous #cheerleader #famous #high #high school