"The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas."

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Source : FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Apr 11, 2014

Ray Bradbury

#Believe Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.”
“The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany.”
“All of this happened a long time ago. But not so long ago that everyone who played a part in it is dead. Some can still be met in dark old rooms with nurses in attendance.”

Source : Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada
“In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.”
“Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining”
“Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.”
“Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words”
“The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.”

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