"We have pledged ourselves, and of this the United Nations of the world are witness, to give the fullest opportunity for attainment of self-government by India as soon as hostilities are over. I repeat that that is beyond doubt."

-- Stafford Cripps

#Opportunity Quotes #Government Quotes #Self Quotes

“Move fast and break things.”

Source : "Facebook’s Analog Research Lab: The Slogan Factory Where Techies Get Tactile" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.
“I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.”
“Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.”

Source : Jean Luc Godard, David Sterritt (1998). “Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“He who is neither human nor demon is not the dawn nor the dusk.”
“Nobody can hear you read music.”
“Human beings never think for themselves... For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity... We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.”

Source : "The Lost World". Book by Michael Crichton, 1995.
“The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars - economic and social - are subsidiary to, and underpinned by, the third: a vibrant global ecology. Neither dollars nor our species will out-survive our planet. The earth can survive happily without people or profit”
“That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky ...”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

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