"If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power."

-- Carl Sagan

#Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes #Authority Quotes

“ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.”
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
“Why should I complain about making $7,000 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.”
“Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.”

Source : "A Darwinian theory of beauty". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.
“My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general publicâ€™s hearts and minds and bodies.”
“As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.”
“That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe.”

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