"You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

#Life Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Past Quotes

“I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.”
“Hey, are you a boy or a â€” never mind, can I have a push on the swing?â€ And some day, yâ€™all, when we grow up, itâ€™s all gonna be that simple.”
“Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“A teacher had once told them that men were either beasts, gentlemen, or beasts masquerading as gentlemen. Might there be a fourth category â€” gentlemen masquerading as beasts?”
“Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.”
“I never had tons of friends on tour. I was quiet and went about my business.”
“The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.”
“I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really explain how bad it was.”

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