D Quotes
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“Declutter and Undisparity, these are the lifeblood of sustainability.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Declutter is the sensible way forward,
So I moved from Windows to Chrome OS.
Less cluttered in mind and machine,
More you shall find the peaceful pace.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Declutter Sonnet
Declutter is the sensible way forward,
So I moved from Windows to Chrome OS.
Less cluttered in mind and machine,
More you shall find the peaceful pace.
Note that I didn't make a mention of iOS,
even though it bears an element of declutter.
Declutter monetized at a ridiculous price tag,
is worse than the most cockeyed clutter.
Declutter and Undisparity, these are
the lifeblood of sustainability.
And there can be no sustainability,
so long as there are vanity and luxury.
Intoxicated by the clutter of luxury,
World chases happiness with no avail.
Health and happiness will come chasing,
Once you learn to live humble and simple.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“Declutter your mind, your heart, your home. Let go of the heaviness that is weighing you down. Make your life simple, but significant.”
“Decluttering and downsizing before I am forced to do so also means my kids will have less work and stress when I reach old age or suffer an infirmity.”
Source: Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
“Decluttering isn’t about having less — it’s about making room for more peace, more clarity, and more of what truly matters.”
Source: The 30-Day Declutter Challenge: Transform Your Space and Your Mind
“Decluttering tip: Ask yourself do I need this? How long has it been since I used this? Do I need so many?”
“Decluttering your space helps declutter your mind.”
“Deco, it was a pleasure to have worked with you.”
“Decode the message of failure and enjoy the fortune thereof.”
Source: The Fortune in Failing: Decoding the Message of Failure
“Decoding (a child's difficult) behavior is like looking at a rain wrapped tornado crossing the road in front of you. You see the fury of rain, hail, wind and debris, but you have to look real hard to see the driving force behind it.”
Source: Successful Foster Care Adoption
“Decoding the Kemeticism and the trinity of the word ISRAEL, is equivalent to ISIS, RA and ELOHIM. Meaning the son (Ra) of God (Elohim) and Isis.”
“Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.”
“Decolonization Anthem (Excerpt)
We are children of the Global South,
not a lost cause or subjects of pity,
not tax breaks in a donor’s ledger,
nor footnotes in whitewashed history.
Our lands are rich with brains,
our soil is rich with minerals,
our veins pulse with creation,
hearts bright with civilization.
They looted our gold,
then sold us “aid” –
they burnt our libraries,
then sold us “education.”
Colonizers were the real cannibals of history,
out to civilize humans with far advanced society –
suffering of the South was not bad luck or destiny,
just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Decolonization Anthem -
Song of The Global South
(Sonnet 2616-2619)
Humanity is mightier than empires of apes,
life is braver than borders of the dead.
No one's undocumented on a planet built on loot,
champions of freedom are champions of truth.
We are children of the Global South,
not a lost cause or subjects of pity,
not tax breaks in a donor's ledger,
nor footnotes in whitewashed history.
Our lands are rich with brains,
our soil is rich with minerals,
our veins pulse with creation,
hearts bright with civilization.
They looted our gold,
then sold us "aid" -
they burnt our libraries,
then sold us "education."
Colonizers were the real cannibals of history,
out to civilize humans with far advanced society -
suffering of the South was not bad luck or destiny,
just the grand design of Manifest Atrocity.
Rise, O Peoples of Earth -
Rise till the looters fall.
Roar like Sonnets of Naskar -
Fire the fascists, free the world!
In every culture we carry the cosmos,
in every tongue we carry our home.
Our names are not doormats of empire,
our dust is larger than Greece and Rome.
Own your color, your accent,
own your stories, your theologies,
be proud of your sweat, your stubborn dignity -
for the North wrote itself as civilized,
but we, the Global South, authored humanity.
They told us, history is white,
holiness is western, progress is european -
but the hands that built the world,
with science, medicine, poetry,
philosophy, astronomy and mathematics,
were black, brown and indigenous.
Stand and burn the colonial syllabus,
disown the doctrines built on erasure -
rise and write like blood on fire -
write your anthem, write your future.
Rise, O Children of Earth,
no matter the color or culture,
you have more heart than ape empires,
more soul than parasites and vultures!
Burn the cartels, fire the fascists -
I lived my duty, now you be the Naskar.
Let the cosmos stand witness,
to the spark of human nature.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“decolonization is always a violent phenomenon [...] Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a programme of complete disorder”
Source: The Wretched of the Earth
“Decolonized History Lesson
(Sonnet 1546)
Early Arabs and Indians
invented astronomy and algebra,
Early white people invented
genocide and massacre.
Indigenous Latinos invented chocolate,
Early Chinese invented printing.
Early Caucasians invented cockiness,
calling invasion as civilization-bringing.
Modern Arabs build cities in the desert,
Modern whites still burn down cities.
Modern Indians democratize space exploration,
Modern whites still manufacture disparities.
Modern whites coddle hate and prejudice,
and use free speech as justification.
If any humane white ever questions hate,
they're branded, woke traitor to the nation.
Till this day, white people manufacture
99% of the world's human rights violations.
If you right the wrong, it's cussed as wokeness,
To support white terrorism is patriotism.”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“Decolonizing knowledge shouldn’t put us in the position of only producing knowledge as a reaction to Western knowledge. Our existence should not become one in which everything we produce is to justify our intellectual existence vis-à-vis the West. It means to produce what we see as important, fit, and nurturing to our communities, countries, and cultures, in separation from the West and its colonial and imperial agenda. This way, we will ensure to not waste our energy in simply reacting to the West to justify the value of our contribution to knowledge.”
“Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Deconstructed, I find its bits and pieces everywhere around me in the architecture of my social world.
I find components of its violence in the sexism of your comments.
I find it in the way you touch me without asking.
I find it in the way you call that girl a whore.
I find its bits and pieces of violence, the building blocks of sexual assault, in the psyches and vocabularies of my boyfriend, my professors, and my friends.”
“Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.”
“Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.”
“Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.”
“Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.”
Source: The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance
“Deconstruction is not meant to be a soft sighing for the future, but a way of deciding now and being impassioned in a moment.”
Source: The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion
“Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism, in a certain spirit of Marxism.”
“Deconstruction seeks neither to reframe art with some perfect, apt and truthful new frame, nor simply to maintain the illusion of some pure and simple absence of a frame. Rather it shows that the frame is, in a sense, also inside the painting. For the frame is what "produces" the object of art, is what sets it off
as
an object of art—an aesthetic object. Thus the frame is essential to the work of art; in the work of art. Paint a $5,000 abstract painting on a railroad boxcar and nobody will pay a cent for it. Take a torch, remove the panel of the boxcar, install it in a gallery, and it will be worth $5,000. It will be art because it is now framed by the gallery. But at the same moment that the frame encloses the work in its own protected enclosure, making it a work of art, it becomes merely ornamental—external to the work of art. Thus is the frame central or marginal? Is the frame inside the work of art, essential to it, or outside the work of art, extrinsic to it?”
Source: Derrida for Beginners
“Deconstruction seems to offer a way out of the closure of knowledge. By inaugurating the open-ended indefiniteness of textuality-by thus 'placing in the abyss' (mettre en abime), as the French expression would literally have it-it shows us the lure of the abyss as freedom. The fall into the abyss of deconstruction inspires us with as much pleasure as fear. We are intoxicated with the prospect of never hitting bottom”
“Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.”
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“Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.”
“Decorate your inner dreams with love, light and laughter”
“Decorated in exotic tones of saffron, gold, ruby, and cinnamon with accent walls representing the natural movement of wind and fire, and a cascading waterfall layered with beautiful landscaped artificial rocks and tiny plastic animals, the restaurant was the embodiment of her late brother's dream to re-create "India" in the heart of San Francisco.
The familiar scents- cinnamon, pungent turmeric, and smoky cumin- brought back memories of evenings spent stirring dal, chopping onions, and rolling roti in the bustling kitchen of her parents' first restaurant in Sunnyvale under the watchful army of chefs who followed the recipes developed by her parents. What had seemed fun as a child, and an imposition as a teenager, now filled her with a warm sense of nostalgia, although she would have liked just one moment of her mother's time.”
Source: The Marriage Game
“Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“Decorating has always been my hobby.”
“Decorating in relation to hotels is really nothing more than planned showmanship or the art of attracting attention in a delightful way and thus creating an increased consumer acceptance. It gives the guest the feeling of anticipation, excitement, expectancy, delight, and pride in the management of his favorit hotel.”
“Decorating is a completely personal expression (much like fashion). If I am lucky enough to have a flourishing career based on my taste and skill, I would advise my clients as I do myself: rules are to be understood, then judiciously broken.
- Alexandra Meyn”
Source: Rethink: The Way You Live
“Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.”
“Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.”
“Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.”
“Decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.”
“Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.”
“Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls.”
“Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.”
Source: Design metaphors
“Decoration Day--
created to honor
the enslaved African-Americans
in the Civil War
who fought for their own emancipation
and liberation
and for the health and integrity of
this country.
American History stole that one, too.
Made it Memorial Day.
All Soldiers Matter?”
“Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.”
Source: Ponkapog Papers
“Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.”
Source: Clement Greenberg, Late Writings
“Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.”
“Decoration is primarily concerned with superficialities—i.e. changing the surface of a thing, and not its substance—and must therefore occupy its own space separate from art...”
“Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.”