"I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion."

-- Beatrix Potter

#Thinking Quotes #Prejudice Quotes #Three Quotes

“Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.”
“The Hollywood tradition I like best is called â€œsucking up to the stars.”
“The education situation which most effectively promotes significant learning is one in which (1) threat to the self of the learner is reduced to a minimum and (2) differential perception of the field of experience is facilitated”
“Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.”
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
“Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problemsâ€¦. I choose to call such a system a mess.”

Source : "Redesigning the Future: a Systems Approach to Societal Problems". Book by Russell L. Ackoff, p. 21, 1974.
“Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.”
“Everybody needs inspiration Everbody needs a song. A beautiful melody, When the night's so long. Cause there is no guarantee, That this life is easy.”

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