"Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you."

-- Ernst Haas

#Inspiration Quotes #Inspired Quotes #Repetition Quotes

“I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.”
“it will be miraculous, very miraculous.”

Source : Malika Oufkir, Michele Fitoussi (2001). “Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail”, Miramax Books
“I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.”

Source : "General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman" by Ed Cray, (p. 591), 1991.
“No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as we are known' (I Cor 13:12). But for the present what reaches us is a scant emanation, as it were a small beam from a great light - which means that any one who 'knew' God or whose 'knowledge' of Him has been attested to in the Bible, has a manifestly more brilliant knowledge than others not equally illuminated. This superiority was reckoned knowledge in the full sense, not because it really was so, but by the contrast of relative strengths.”
“Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.”
“Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.”
“Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions.”
“It is easier to tear down a code than to put a new one in its place.”

Source : Frederick Lewis Allen (2015). “Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s”, p.82, Open Road Media

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