"The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable. To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily also deprives others of the right to listen to those views."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#Thinking Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Views Quotes

“When you write things down, you commit to doing them. If you simply tell me what you want to do, there is really no commitment to getting it done.”
“One of my modeling bookers told me that the most important thing is to try to be vigilant about taking care of yourself. Get sleep, don't be afraid to trim your hair even if you're trying to grow it out, don't bite your fingernails, and stay in shape. A lot of it is in the little things.”
“I think the question is who am I? That's what we all should be asking ourselves. Who am I? Well, if I am first a Christian conservative then that dictates my response to all questions so my response first as a Christian conservative is to vote consistent with my value system.”
“There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.”

Source : Vash Young (2009). “A Fortune to Share”, p.11, Lulu.com
“There's an opposite to dÃ©jÃ vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”
“When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.302, Broadview Press
“I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.”
“The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.”

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