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4,407 quotes curated by Chris Lavergne:

“Is SXSW Getting Canceled? Twitter Pulls Out on Coronavirus Concerns”
— Digital Msuic News, Is SXSW Getting Canceled? Twitter Pulls Out on Coronavirus Concerns
“People are binary on China — either it’s the greatest country in the world, defies economic gravity, or it’s about to implode.”
— Leland Miller, A China skeptic takes a victory lap as unwanted steel floods the market
Tagged: China
“China is an important cog in the supply and demand chains of the world. Even if the outbreak can be contained, which doesn’t look like it, the economic impact can’t be.”
— Leland Miller, The situation in China is even worse than you think, says this analyst with a history of accurate calls
Tagged: China
“Do you know what is so awful about these endless battles over rights? There's no room left for poetry.”
— Cardinal Gutierrez, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Poetry
“Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 award-winning novel “Station Eleven,” which tells the story of a swine flu pandemic that wipes out most of the world’s population, is hitting close to home these days in more ways than one.”
— Patty Wetli, In Eerie Coincidence, HBO’s Flu Pandemic, Post-Apocalyptic Series ‘Station Eleven’ Filming in Chicago
“The sublime doesn't have fame or money on its side. But it persists, it renews itself in every generation. Because in thought some greatness of soul keeps being born. So it is important to know how to repeat after Gothe: Respect! Respect! Respect! ”
— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space
Tagged: Generational Knowledge, Thinking Memetics
“I raise above the altar bread and wine. Humbled, since my reason does not comprehend what I do.”
— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space
Tagged: Beyond Logic, Metanatural
“There was a time when disinterested beauty by its sheer superabundance gratified our eyes. What have they left us? Only the accountancy of a capitalist  enterprise.”
— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space
“I was absent, dedicated to invisible countries.”
— Czeslaw Milosz, Second Space
Tagged: Being Otherworldy in the World
“My grief, like all great sorrows, cannot be expressed in words. The dictionary does not contain the adequate words.”
— Giovanni Paolo III / Sir John Brannox, The New Pope, Season 1: Episode 6
Tagged: Grief, When Words Fail