"Over the years, I have learned that every significant invention has several characteristics. By definition it must be startling, unexpected, and must come into a world that is not prepared for it. If the world were prepared for it, it would not be much of an invention."

-- Edwin Land

#Years Quotes #World Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false...”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
“If Britons were left to tax themselves, there would be no schools, no hospitals, just a 500-mile-high statue of Diana, Princess of Wales”

Source : "Not amused by Jimmy Carr? Check out these comedians instead" by Hazel Davis, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2009.
“Say nothing but good of the dead.”
“Giving offers us the opportunity to reshape our destiny. When you give, you are reshaping your destiny.”
“Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.”
“The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.”
“For me, I was able to make that statement of faith early on when my career began, so there werent really a lot of surprises. People around me knew where my husband Ray and I stood as far as my faith went.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account...”

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