"A great number of people in the East German parts had been Nazis, so the change of mind was not altogether there."

-- Stefan Heym

#Numbers Quotes #People Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow & people started to listen so thank you.”

Source : "Sam Smith's Grammy Acceptance Speech For Best Pop Vocal Album Is One To Remember" by Joanna Adams, www.huffingtonpost.ca. February 8, 2015.
“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.”
“The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.124, Macmillan
“The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.”

Source : Claude Elwood Shannon, Warren Weaver (1962). “The mathematical theory of communication”
“The better question to ask yourself is: How to correct your diet so you can start losing weight?”
“Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.”

Source : Egon Friedell (1953). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age: Introduction. book 1. Renaissance and reformation, from the black death to the thirty years' war”
“There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where they shine. They burn too weakly or are too far away to be seen directly, even if you stare. But you can see them out of the corner of your eye because the cells on the periphery of your retina are more sensitive to light. Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye.”

Source : Janna Levin (2009). “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines”, p.12, Anchor
“A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent”

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