Niina Kurkinen Quotes & Sayings

Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory procedure and a practically costly one. The bourgeois is the measure of the price paid, he who most of all cannot afford to look to his real self, who denies the existence of the thinly boarded-over basement in him, who is most made over for the purposes of a society that does not even promise him perfection or salvation but merely buys him off. — Allan Bloom

There's nothing more special than talking in your community, and using your celebrity to uplift people and help them. — Doug E. Fresh

I ask you to accept the things you cannot change, only so you may grow to the point when you can change the things you cannot accept. Consider this", said the Yogi, "what cannot be cured, must be endured, but then what can't be endured must one day be cured. Be a boulder of endurance. Be a stonecutter of grit, to cure. Be both. — Shailendra Gulhati

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster ... The repercussions may be extreme ... and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood. — John Money

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget. — Joshua Foer

I wanna live like Arnold, Willis and Mr. Drummond ...
And keep my paper sturdy, big birds and tight herbs. — Pimp C