"I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is."

-- Dizzy Gillespie

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.”

Source : "May the Source Be With You". Article adapted from "The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World", www.wired.com. December 01, 2001.
“When I am wrong, he is delighted to forgive. When I am angry, he clowns to make me smile. When I am happy, he is joy unbounded. When I am a fool, he ignores it. When I succeed, he brags. Without him, I am only another man. With him, I am all-powerful. He is loyalty itself.”

Source : Steve Smith, Gene Hill (1999). “Just Mutts: A Tribute to the Rogues of Dogdom”, p.93, Willow Creek Press
“I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.”
“A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods.”
“Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science.”

Source : Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins (1979). “What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas and methods”, Oxford University Press, USA
“I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement”
“I think one of the most radical things a girl can do is to own her body. And we learn so young not to own these bodies of ours.”
“Venetians feel affection and loyalty to their city, rather than to the Italian state.”

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