#ura

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#away #because #field #hard #hard work

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. ↗

— Jil Sander

#apparent #certain #cultural #dated #designer

I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#felt #grew #i #lot #me

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. ↗

— Justin Sane

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #demonstrated #feminist

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. ↗

— George Santayana

#done #duty #his #man #natural

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. ↗

— George Santayana

#diseases #him #instincts #less #man

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#assign #comparison #cultural #dates #different

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#adolescence #atmosphere #beginning #being #critical

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#architectural #back #beautifully #bone #cut