"Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves."

-- William Gurnall

#Rocks Quotes #Retreat Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.”

Source : "Go-Go's 'Will Have New Music Coming,' Says Guitarist". Interview with Gary Graff, www.billboard.com. May 3, 2011.
“Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.”
“There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled - thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.”
“The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other peopleâ€™s expectations.”

Source : Julia Cameron (1997). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.29, Penguin
“You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.”
“The key questions will be: Are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? Are your skills a complement to the skills of the computer, or is the computer doing better without you? Worst of all, are you competing against the computer?”

Source : "Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation". Book by Tyler Cowen, 2013.
“I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night ...”

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