"We all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas."

-- Howard Zinn

#Responsibility Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Long Quotes

“Virtue is the truest liberty.”
“Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.”

Source : Gary Paulsen (2001). “Brian's Winter”, p.27, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"”
“I don't care for remakes. There's soooo much undiscovered material out there; old and new. I want to be original.”
“Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false”
“As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.”
“He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.”
“Any definition which limits us is deplorable.”

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