"Every interview with a public figure should include the question "What have you been wrong about, and how did that change your views?" The answer will tell us if the person is intellectually honest or a tale spinner with delusions of infallibility."

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Source : Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.243, Penguin

Stewart Brand

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“Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.”
“To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.”
“It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.”

Source : Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.24, Atlantic Books Ltd
“I've taken my knickers off. My friends told me my panty line was visible, so I went without.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.”
“I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.”

Source : Interview with Lori Blackman, www.edition.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.
“I figure I'm still good for painting until 95 or thereabouts.”

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