"I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them."

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Chuck Palahniuk

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Inventory Quotes

“But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.”
“On past records I usually did start with a story or an idea for a song and then write around it, but on Achilles' Heel I would just start writing and try to let the song and my sub-conscience determine the direction. which is a goofy way of saying I tried not to decide before hand what the song and or the characters would do and be like.”
“We academic scientists move within a certain sphere, we can go on being useless up to a point, in the confidence that sooner or later some use will be found for our studies. The mathematician, of course, prides himself on being totally useless, but usually turns out to be the most useful of the lot. He finds the solution but he is not interested in what the problem is: sooner or later, someone will find the problem to which his solution is the answer.”
“Do nothing but be prepared to do anything.”

Source : Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I seem to be able to get away with pun strips if I add a panel at the end where I somehow indicate that I know it's a bad pun.”
“The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.”
“People talk a lot about the Jackson's but then when you think about it, there is quite a lot to talk about.”
“In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.”

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