"To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Mind Quotes #Littles Quotes #Great Minds Quotes

“It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.”
“Eventually, humans invented agriculture, which could be understood as a way of turning the natural world into a tool for our use. There's evidence that we have been domesticating crops and animals for at least 15,000 years, adapting ecosystems to our preferred way of life.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Let me explain something you already know. I'm from Texas and we understand the nature of a border. From what I've seen, vigilant Texans are being ordered to stand down and allow criminals to pass. Mr. President, prepare to see Texans ignoring those orders.”
“The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.”
“The organized person ... makes the most of his time and goes to his bed for the night perfectly relaxed for rest and renewal.”
“Why can't a heterosexual guy tell a heterosexual guy / That he thinks his booty is fly?”
“Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin's casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with that absurd solemnity that the transience of of existence conferred upon even the smallest act.”
“I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think we need to get to the roots of problems as we try to solve them. I also like the word anti-capitalist.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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