#thin

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life. ↗

— Brigham Young

#appreciate #clearly #education #life #power

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#become #fact #individuals #life #me

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#behavior #causes #desire #dominates #everyday

I think I was lucky to come of age in a place and time - the American South in the 1960s and '70s - when the machine hadn't completely taken over life. The natural world was still the world, and machines - TV, telephone, cars - were still more or less ancillary, and computers were unheard of in everyday life. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#american #cars #come #completely #computers

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#dwelling #every #freeze #get #great

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work. ↗

— Ben Fountain

#chair #doing #down #main #main thing

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#before #clarinet #ear #greatest #i

If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid. ↗

— Pete Fountain

#around #career #going #grown #had

Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#acknowledged #actions #between #change #climate

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#because #big #big leagues #bill #bill clinton