"The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy."

-- William Beveridge

#Peace Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.”

Source : Gene Sharp (2010). “From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation”, p.6, Albert Einstein Institution
“We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.”
“Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good. I agree with Jim [Lauderdale] in that I think the really good ones are songs that when you hear it [sic]...there's just something about it that touches your heart, and you don't know why.”
“How would Elvira run the state of California? Well, there isn't much I could do that is worse than what Arnold Schwarzenegger has done. Running it into the damn ground. If I was running the whole nation? I would have free Netflix movies for everyone.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Cassandra Peterson Talks Elvira's Movie Macabre" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 13, 2011.
“Give me the compliments. I love compliments. I was born modest, but it wore off.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Who would benefit from a war of civilizations between the West and Islam? Answer: one nation, one leader, one party. Israel, Sharon, Likud.”
“We've learned our lesson with finance because they made a huge ***** explosion that almost shut down the world. But the thing I realized is that there might never be an explosion on the scale of the financial crisis happening with big data.”
“Housewives of the 1950s were supposed to create show-stopping meals every night for their hard-working husbands.”

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