"Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation."

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Edward Abbey

#Thinking Quotes #Thought Provoking Quotes #Innovation Quotes

“Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'”

Source : Owen Wister (2016). “OWEN WISTER Ultimate Collection: Historical Novels, Western Classics, Adventure & Romance Stories (Including Non-Fiction Historical Works): The Virginian, The Promised Land, A Kinsman of Red Cloud, Lady Baltimore, Lin McLean, Red Man and White, The Dragon of Wantley, Padre Ignacio, Philosophy 4, The Jimmyjohn Boss…”, p.625, e-artnow
“Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2012). “The History of Love”, p.19, Penguin UK
“Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.”
“Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.”
“For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Jimmi Simpson Talks Stay Alive". MovieWeb interview, movieweb.com. March 22, 2006.
“Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else.”
“I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.”
“Delicacy in woman is strength.”

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