"Without action, the world would still be an idea."

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Source : Georges Frederic Doriot, Udayan Gupta (2004). “The First Venture Capitalist: Georges Doriot on Leadership, Capital, & Business Organization”, p.129, Calgary : Gondolier

Georges Doriot

#Ideas Quotes #World Quotes #Action Quotes

“As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest.”

Source : "Marijuana Compound Treats Multiple Health Issues" By Chris Kilham, www.foxnews.com. April 20, 2011.
“I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.”
“The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.”

Source : Havelock Ellis (1939). “Morals, Manners, and Men”
“Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.”
“I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.”
“To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.”
“What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.”
“Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand.”

Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.18, Penguin

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