"The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring"

-- Bran Ferren

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Endure Quotes

“No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.”
“The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed (accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already believe.”

Source : Ellen Willis (2000). “Don't Think, Smile!: Notes on a Decade of Denial”, Beacon Press (MA)
“Women, more than men, are bound by tradition and authority. What the father, the brother, the doctor, and the minister have said has been received undoubtingly. Until women throw off this reverence for authority they will not develop.”
“Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or once abstained because He said, Do not do it! It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.”

Source : George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.212, Simon and Schuster
“War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.”
“I consider it an honor and a privilege to play for the Indianapolis Colts, and I would never want to jeopardize it by doing something stupid.”
“Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.6
“Make fair agreements and stick to them”

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