Alan Thein Durning Quotes, Ecosystems Quotes, Style Quotes

If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.

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Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.

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The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

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You can't throw too much style into a miracle.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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Isn't television glamourous?

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Our civility, England determines the style of, inasmuch as England is the strongest of the family of existing nations, and as we are the expansion of that people. It is that of a trading nation; it is a shopkeeping civility. The English lord is a retired shopkeeper, and has the prejudices and timidities of that profession.

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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

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Lethargy, bordering on sloth should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.

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The style of God venerated in church, mosque, and synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

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Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

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