"If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all."

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Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure”, p.7, Broadway Books

Daniel Quinn

#Change Quotes #Mind Quotes #World Quotes

“It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2012). “Territorial Rights: A Novel”, p.46, Open Road Media
“If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of an active space development effort, comfort yourself with this thought. If you want to be on the leading edge of anything, you have by definition to be a couple of standard deviations away from most people. That makes you an odd-ball. The trick is to learn to accept it, then to like it-and keep on making lots of noise for what you believe in.”
“Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.”
“I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.”
“Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.”
“True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable.”

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