"Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate."

-- George Nelson

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”
“When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.”
“The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public opinion, by playing either upon the public's indifference, confusions, prejudices, pugnacities or fears. And the only way in which the power of the interests can be undermined and their maneuvers defeated is by bringing home to the public the danger of its indifference, the absurdity of its prejudices, or the hollowness of its fears; by showing that it is indifferent to danger where real danger exists; frightened by dangers which are nonexistent.”
“Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain.”

Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.21
“I do find life difficult at times â€¦ and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy â€¦ I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?”

Source : "Diaries reveal dark side to Little Grey Rabbit's creator" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2009.
“Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.”
“If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.”
“It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?”

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