"When I started Rolling Stone in November 1967, the magazine's initial chapter was to cover rock & roll music with intelligence and respect. Even then, we knew that the fervor sweeping our generation encompassed more than just music."

-- Jann Wenner

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“I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem to be qualitatively different. Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. Instead of memorizing facts, we were asked to think in clear, logical steps. Beginning from a few intuitive postulates, far reaching consequences could be derived, and I took immediately to the sport of proving theorems.”
“In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.”

Source : "Seventy Faces: Articles of Faith". Book by Norman Lamm, 2002.
“If there is a fence and you don't know its purpose, don't just assume there isn't one and tear it down. Find out what the fence is intended to accomplish. You might see it needs to stay.”

Source : SBC Today Interview, sbctoday.com. January 24, 2012.
“I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.”
“New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.)”
“Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.”
“We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?”
“The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.”

Source : "This much I know: Amory Lovins". Interview with Lucy Siegle, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2008.

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