"Take risks in order to innovate"

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Anna Bligh

#Order Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.”
“There is no time like the present...”

Source : Georgia Byng (2009). “Molly Moon's Hypnotic Time-Travel Adventure”, p.113, Pan Macmillan
“Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me the sound alone raised my pulse to 120. Tying my feet into the stretchers increased it to 180. My maximum pulse was 200. I didn't need a warmup. I needed a sedative.”
“Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.”
“When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.”
“Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.”
“That was clearly a tackle aimed at getting revenge - or maybe it was just out-and-out retribution.”
“Frankly, Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.”

Source : "The Last Amazon" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 2014.

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