"Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much"

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Galen Beckett

#Flower Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn't cut it.”

Source : "A Lifetime of Achievement, but James Earl Jones Isn't Done". Interview with Susan Wloszczyna, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2009.
“As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.”
“I just think that things get easier as you get older and wiser and more experienced. You get more confident about who you are as you get older. I find that really comforting.”
“Speaking of a future at most only decades away, an experimenter in intelligence control asserted, â€œI foresee a time when we shall have the means and therefore, inevitably, the temptation to manipulate the behavior and intellectual functioning of all the people through environmental and biochemical manipulation of the brain.”

Source : "Between two ages". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1970.
“Meowâ€ means â€œwoofâ€ in cat.”
“We're a superpower with a Third World grid.”

Source : "Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.foxnews.com. August 17, 2003.
“Los Angles to me seems to be a little bit more forgiving. They're just as rowdy and they're just as excited but they understand a [botch] happens sometimes, and they're excited to see the show and they just want to have some fun.”

Source : Source: 411mania.com
“Philosophy springs from the love of being; it is man's loving endeavor to perceive the order of being and attune himself to it. Gnosis desires dominion over being; in order to seize control of being the Gnostic constructs his system. The building of systems is a gnostic form of reasoning, not a philosophical one.”

Source : Eric Voegelin, James L. Wizer (1998). “The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin”, p.273, University of Missouri Press

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