"Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change."

-- Antanas Mockus

#Art Quotes #Creativity Quotes #People Quotes

“Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels.”

Source : Jennifer Echols (2011). “Love Story”, p.65, Simon and Schuster
“I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.”

Source : Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2010.
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change.”
“It is very hard to answer the oft-posed questions about how Abraham Lincoln would respond to some current condition. My favorite story on that count is that the late great Lincoln scholar Don Fehrebacher was asked, during the struggles over bussing for racial balance a few years ago, what Lincoln would say about "bussing" and he thought awhile and then answered : "what Lincoln would say would be: "What's a bus?"”
“In its power, clarity and shear beauty, Mack Bailey's voice reminds me of no one more than my friend, the late John Denver. I love to hear this man sing.”
“I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.”
“We shall not refuse tobacco the credit of being sometimes medical, when used temperately, though an acknowledged poison.”

Source : Jesse Torrey (1819). “The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue and Happiness: Being a Compendium of Moral Science, in Four Parts ... : with an Appendix Containing Directions for the Institution of Free Public Libraries, and Reading Societies : Designed for the Use of Families, and the Highest Classes in Common Schools and Academies”, p.186
“Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the costs of war, or just war readiness, are daunting. ... The resulting cost squeeze has led to a new type of society, perhaps best terms a 'depleted' state, in which the military has drained reources from all other social functions.”

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