"According to recognized aero technical tests, the bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn't know this, so he goes ahead and flies anyway."

-- Igor Sikorsky

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“I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.”
“I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.”
“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?”
“And the best way to quit being concerned with yourself is to be concerned about others.”

Source : Florinda Donner (1991). “Being-in-dreaming”, Harpercollins
“We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.”
“The moment one abandons the idea that he was born to discover what is right and enforce it upon the rest of the world, he begins to feel an increasing disposition to let others alone and to refrain even from retaliation or resistance except in those emergencies which immediately and imperatively require it.”

Source : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub
“Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.”

Source : Edward H. Levi (2013). “Restoring Justice: The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi”, p.38, University of Chicago Press
“Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and upredictable chain reaction, that every filament of living becomes part of a larger weave, while remaining identifiable. That every line of latitude requires several stripes of longitude to obtain meaning. That every universe is part of a bigger heaven, a heaven of rhythm and geometry, where a heartbeat is the apex of a triangle.”

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