"That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home."

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Source : Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

Steve Toltz

#War Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Home Quotes

“The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.”
“If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.”

Source : "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.
“I have so much love that I didn't even know about.”
“It's June in January Because I'm in love It always is spring in my heart with you in my arms.”
“You'll never catch a man if you let him think you are too smart.”
“Can the brain understand the brain? Can it understand the mind? Is it a giant computer, or some other kind of giant machine, or something more?”
“I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.”
“Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.”

Source : "Women Are the Deciders, But for Which Candidate? An Interview With Pollster Celinda Lake". Interview with Martha Burk, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

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