Quotes
Authors
Alan Watts

"It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things."

-- Alan Watts

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“It's too low, and if Europe wants to be a force in the world it needs to be more than a moral and political and economic force, which Europe is because it shares many of our values and demonstrates them around the world. But it has to have the military power that goes with that as well.”
“Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.”
“That is what I wish, I wish to be martyred.”
“True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”
“You will move in the direction you are facing.”
“I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!”
“Multiply your age times your realized pretax annual household income from all sources except inheritances. Divide by ten. This, less any inherited wealth, is what your net worth should be.”

Source : Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko (1996). “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy”, p.13, Government Institutes
“Creativity and innovation are something you canâ€™t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and weâ€™re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isnâ€™t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.”

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