"Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation."

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Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.11, Broadway Books

Joel Garreau

#Attitude Quotes #Issues Quotes #Political Quotes

“For, what is order without common sense, but Bedlam's front parlor? What is imagination without common sense, but the aspiration to out-dandy Beau Brummell with nothing but a bit of faded muslin and a limp cravat? What is Creation without common sense, but a scandalous thing without form or function, like a matron with half a dozen unattached daughters? And God looked upon the Creation in all its delightful multiplicity, and saw that, all in all, it was quite Amiable.”
“I want to give my compliments to Australia. Ever since your government paid a few million dollars for a Jackson Pollack painting, I figure that it must be a marvellous country”
“Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in oneâ€™s own castle.”
“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!”
“The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.”
“Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.”
“Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.”
“I gotta be honest with you...I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.”

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