"The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think."

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Source : "Business needs to learn to see separate challenges as part of the whole" by Giles Hutchins, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

Gregory Bateson

#Thinking Quotes #Differences Quotes #People Quotes

“To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.”
“I don't really feel much more confident than I did the last couple years. I've always felt like I have a pretty good knuckleball. I worked hard to do that.?”
“Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.”
“We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.”

Source : Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.
“I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government.”
“Checkers is for tramps”
“That happiness is to be attained through limitless material acquisition is denied by every religion and philosophy known to mankind, but is preached incessantly by every American television set.”

Source : Robert Neelly Bellah (1975). “The broken covenant: American civil religion in time of trial”, Harper San Francisco
“Enjoy yourselves. And Hap: Don't let Umber near the arrows and bows; he's liable to shoot himself in the nose." Dodd grinned and snapped the reins, and the carriage rolled away. Umber sniffed. "One of his lesser poems. Come, Hap.”

Source : P. W. Catanese (2010). “Dragon Games”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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