"Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent."

-- Douglas Lenat

#Imagination Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.”
“Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.”
“You are the best person I've met in years, and if I'd met you in a year's time, or maybe even a few months, I know we could be happy together, but I can't give you what you need.”

Source : Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.158, Broadway Books
“I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.”

Source : FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from May 04, 2014
“When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.”
“Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day”
“Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.”
“Nine different people gathered and became like a family. To me, it is a very meaningful tie.”

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