"Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful."

-- Alfred North Whitehead

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“Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 12, 2013
“When you have trouble with thingsâ€”whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industriesâ€”it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.”

Source : "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Donald Norman, Introduction to the 2002 Edition, p. x, 2002.
“Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.”

Source : Susanna Moodie (2011). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.158, Cambridge University Press
“It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim”
“[Nietzsche inveighs] against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.”
“I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory.”
“People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.”
“Life is absolutely, mysteriously beautiful.”

Source : Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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