Saturday, October 13, 2007

Imagine, ponderings and thoughts... #55

“You can imprison a man, but not an idea. You can exile a man, but not an idea. You can kill a man, but not an idea.” - Benazir Bhutto

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” - George Bernard Shaw

“Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.” - Muhammad Ali
 
“Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.” - Albert Einstein

“Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.” - David Lloyd George

“You should empower the creativity of others.” - Brad Garlinghouse

“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.” - Hannah Arend

“Most civilization is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards that could lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.” - Frank Herbert

“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?” - Steven Wright

“Pain is only temporary, giving up is forever.” - Lance Armstrong.

“Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again.” - Wolof (Senegal, The Gambia)

“The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.” - Anthony D''Angelo

"The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true." - Isaiah Berlin

And finally...

“What's another word for Thesaurus?” - Steven Wright




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