"All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed."

-- Nicolas Chamfort

#Littles Quotes #Forgotten Quotes

“I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.”
“Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.”
“Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong in their seeds. Simply, society never gave them the base to grow on. All it needs to get the poor people out of poverty for us to create an enabling environment for them. Once the poor can unleash their energy and creativity, poverty will disappear very quickly.”
“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.”

Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.
“Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.”
“The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.”
“My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.”

Source : "Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS". Interview With Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 19, 2002.
“Southerners smile more than other Americans.”

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