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After a seven days' march through woodland, the traveler directed toward Baucis cannot see the city and yet he has arrived. The slender stilts that rise from the ground at a great distance from one another and are lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders. On the ground the inhabitants rarely show themselves: having already everything they need up there, they prefer not to come down. Nothing of the city touches the earth except those long flamingo legs on which it rests and, when the days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foilage. "There are three hypotheses about the inhabitants of Baucis: that they hate the earth; that they respect it so much they avoid all contact; that they love it as it was before they existed and with spyglasses and telescopes aimed downward they never tire of examining it, leaf by leaf, stone by stone, ant by ant, contemplating with fascination their own absence. ↗


— Italo Calvino


#invisible #love

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order. ↗


— Tahir Shah


#respect #survival #respect

** The fall semester will offer such classes as Learning When to Shut Up, Asking for Directions, Chick Flicks 101 and The Art of Loading the Dishwasher (Lab Fee Extra) ↗


— K. Larsen


#humor #art

Being a shrinking city and a quintessential modern site in flux, Detroit is a testing ground for experimentation and rethinking. ↗


— Luis A. Croquer


#cities #detroit #experimentation #flux #rethinking

If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? ↗


— George Carlin


#kill

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. ↗


— Ralph Waldo Emerson


#virtue

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve. ↗


— Stefan Collini


#education-system #humanities #education

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions. ↗


— Dallin H. Oaks


#choices #priorities #determination

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do. ↗


— Anna Godbersen


#envy

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers. ↗


— Dennis Lehane


#public-opinion #self-esteem #self-esteem






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