"You have to have a temperamental attraction to dangerous ideas..."

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Jim Holt

#Ideas Quotes #Danger Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.”
“The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.”

Source : "NASA rover wakes up on Mars" By Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. January 4, 2004.
“How many of us give up along the way because we'll never be the expert that so-and-so is?”
“Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.”
“He is invariably in a hurry being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.”
“A life without music is an error.”
“If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.”
“Speakers find joy in public speaking when they realize that a speech is all about the audience, not the speaker. Most speakers are so caught up in their own concerns and so driven to cover certain points or get a certain message across that they can't be bothered to think in more than a perfunctory way about the audience. And the irony is, of course, that there is no hope of getting your message across if that's all the energy you put into the audience. So let go, and give the moment to the audience.”

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