"Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be."

-- Roger von Oech

#Thinking Quotes #Looks Quotes #World Quotes

“The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.”
“I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.”
“Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.”
“Power is not brute force and money; power is in your spirit. Power is in your soul. It is what your ancestors, your old people gave you. Power is in the earth; it is in your relationship to the earth.”
“If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.”
“The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.”
“You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear?”
“It's rare to find someone excited over jury duty. If they're out there, I've never met them. Not a one. When the summons for jury duty arrives in the mail, how many people scream, 'Yes!' and run to clear the calendar? None. Our first and only reaction is, 'Oh, no,' quickly followed by, 'How can I get out of this?'”

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