"Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up."

-- Joe Hill

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Devil Quotes

“By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.”
“The desert sky is encircling, majestic, terrible.”

Source : Paul Shepard (2010). “Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature”, p.43, University of Georgia Press
“Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.”
“I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.”
“More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.”

Source : Hyman Rickover's address to US Naval Postgraduate School, March 16, 1954.
“Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.”
“This devotion, so great and so confident, to the august Queen of Heaven, has never forth with such brilliancy as when the militant Church of Go has seemed to be endangered by the violence of heresy spread abroad, or by an intolerable moral corruption, or by the attacks of powerful enemies. Ancient and modern history and the more sacred annals of the Church bears witness to public and private supplications addressed to the Mother of God, to help She has granted in return, and to the peace and tranquillity which She has obtained from God.”
“Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.”

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