"Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action."

-- Rinku Sen

#Information Quotes #Action Quotes #Turns Quotes

“I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working in a corporation, getting paid pretty good money and doing really exciting research. And we had just done the Cool To Be You record, and I said well, we'll put this record out, but I can't tour it because I just want to do science. That's my gig, my future.”

Source : Source: vandalamagazine.com
“If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.”

Source : Marshall Field (1945). “Freedom is More Than a Word”
“My thoughts and I were of another world.”

Source : Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”
“I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.”
“It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption”

Source : "The Systems Approach" by C. West Churchman, (p. ix), 1968.
“I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.”
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”
“Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.”

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