"I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward anything that is conventional wisdom. Make it justify itself. It usually can't. Be willing to ask questions about what is taken for granted. Try to think things through for yourself."

-- Noam Chomsky

#Attitude Quotes #Taken Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.”
“I like to play characters that are convincing, that aren't just straightforward and nice.”
“I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“In the Obama administration's Washington, government officials are increasingly afraid to talk to the press. The administration's war on leaks and other efforts to control information are the most aggressive I've seen since the Nixon administration, when I was one of the editors involved in The Washington Post's investigation of Watergate.”

Source : "The Obama Administration and the Press" by Leonard Downie Jr., cpj.org. October 10, 2013.
“Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.”
“To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to, our failings are treated with indulgence and our needs are ministered to. And under such care, we flourish.”
“Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”
“Expand the mind, seek and you shall find.”

Source : Song: Tai Chi

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