"One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing."

-- Joan Didion

#Mean Quotes #Defense Quotes #Matter Quotes

“Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.”
“Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.”
“We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.”
“I always find myself pulled back into the fantasy genre, and I can't really explain it.”
“Babies laughing is like opium.”
“Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”
“Expose yourself to as much as possible. Attend conferences no one else is attending. Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to.”

Source : Ben Casnocha (2015). “My Start-Up Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons
“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”

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