"I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something."

-- Sheldon Adelson

#Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.”
“I'm going to cure RM." Marcus laughed. "I wondered when someone would finally get around to that. It's been on my to-do list for ages, but you know how things are: Life gets so busy, and saving the human race is such an inconvenience.”
“Life has abundant treasures, when your settings are on right.”
“I never thought I'd lead the NBA in rebounding, but I got a lot of help from my team-mates - they did a lot of missing.”
“Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible.”
“Don't talk to us like we ignint!”
“Be quiet, or my wife will take away your first born and make him or her work in one of her sweatshops!”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ... [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom? Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands of-one hopes-a benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.”

Source : "Where is Science Taking Us? Gerald Holton Maps the Possible Routes". The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 18, 1981.

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