"We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life."

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Elizabeth Berg

#Genius Quotes #Hopeless Quotes #Lost Quotes

“You know, the very strength of science is that it keeps us from the errors of mythos, from getting committed to a set of memes that we adopt because of congruence with what we think we know. Science demands skepticism.”

Source : Tim Ward (2012). “Zombies on Kilimanjaro: A Father/Son Journey Above the Clouds”, p.112, John Hunt Publishing
“Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.”

Source : Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward 2000-1887”, p.27, Edward Bellamy
“He [Mitt Romney] didn't pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that's true? Well, I'm not certain, but obviously he can't release those tax returns. How would it look?”
“As long as I have a good time, the audience usually has a good time.”
“What God wants is to reveal himself more fully to us.”
“I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.”
“Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.”
“Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.”

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