"The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope."

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Max Lerner

#Kingdoms Quotes #Astonishment Quotes #Surprise Quotes

“The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.”
“Most of today's film actresses are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line and whose uniformity of appearance is frequently a triumph of modern science, thanks to which they can be equipped with identical noses, breasts, teeth, eyelashes, and hair.”

Source : Helen Lawrenson (1968). “Latins are Still Lousy Lovers”
“Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.”

Source : "I have a dream of an India where everyone has equal opportunity: Ratan Tata". Interview with Vani Kola, yourstory.com. February 10, 2015.
“In our constitutional system, the extent of political controversies, including the protests, surrounding a given issue is utterly unrelated to the analysis of legality and should have no effect on any court.”

Source : "Is President Trump’s executive order constitutional?". www.washingtonpost.com. February 6, 2017.
“On his first hand he wore rings of stone, Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone. There were rings unseen on his second hand, One blood in a flowing band, One was air all whisper thin, And the ring of ice had a flaw within. Full faintly shone the ring of flame, And the final ring was without name.”
“I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.”
“In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies.”

Source : Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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