"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the "Mona Lisa" painted by a club? Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer."

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Source : 1957 Baccalaureate address, 9 Jun.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#Spring Quotes #Law Quotes #Land Quotes

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
“Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.”

Source : Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.320, Harvard Business Review Press
“I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It's modeling I didn't find the cure for cancer.”

Source : "Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Biel Make Maxim's Hot List". people.com. May 14, 2008.
“When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whatever you want, or you could take charge and be your own parent.”
“Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.”
“Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.”
“To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can be systematically developed by the spiritual sciences of India and Tibet. We have not yet tamed our own demons of racism, nationalism, sexism, and materialism. We have not yet made peace with a land we took by force and have only partly paid for. We are a teeming conglomeration of people from different tribes who have yet to embrace fully the humanness in one another. And none of us can be really free until all of us are.”

Source : FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Dec 14, 2016
“I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.”

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