"To me, the reason to write about [Buckminster] Fuller is because I think that he has ideas that are incredibly pertinent."

-- Jonathon Keats

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path”
“I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!”
“When I get hurt in the market, I get the hell out. It doesn't matter at all where the market is trading. I just get out, because I believe that once you're hurt in the market, your decisions are going to be far less objective than they are when you're doing well If you stick around when the market is severely against you, sooner or later they are going to carry you out.”
“Be assured that I did not become the Mayor of Chicago to preside over its decline.”
“The process for awarding Nobel prizes is so complex that it cannot be corrupted.”

Source : "Rita Levi-Montalcini obituary" by Anthony Tucker, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2012.
“As music migrates into our iPods, CD collections require less and less room, residing in our heads rather than resounding off the walls. The protracted labor of amassing a personal music library has lost its detective zeal.”
“I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.”
“When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.”

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