"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him."

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Source : The Reader's Digest, Volume 82, February 1963.

Paul Eldridge

#Men Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Clear Quotes

“All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.”

Source : "Snare". Book by Katharine Kerr, 2003.
“I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day.”
“You definitely shouldn't watch the special features before you watch the actual series.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.”
“A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge.”

Source : Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press
“Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.”
“It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.”
“It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.”

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