"The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature."

-- Baruch Spinoza

#Mind Quotes #Unions Quotes

“What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.”
“I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.”

Source : "Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman on Returning to 'Dallas': 'We Do What Linda Says'" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 06, 2012.
“Constant attention wears the active mind, Blots out our pow'rs, and leaves a blank behind.”
“A school is not a factory. Its raison d'être is to provide opportunity for experience.”
“My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always write something. And then, with a lot of work, make it better. It's a question of having enough will and ambition, not of hoping to evade this mysterious hysteria people are always talking about.”
“It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.”
“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”

Source : Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.178, Random House
“ll industries have been disrupted and disruption tends to generate gatherings for people to share information. I don't think media are unusual here. Add to that the discovery, or perhaps expansion of the awareness, that events can generate revenue. So now we have companies whose business model is heavily based on events, whether it is Re/code or South by Southwest or many others. Those kinds of gatherings were once more institutionally oriented inside trade associations. Now they have been expanded out.”

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