"Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge."

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Thomas Hood

#Cutting Quotes #Form Quotes

“There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!”
“Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.”
“Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...”
“Consider yourself lightly; consider the world deeply.”
“I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities Î± , Î², Î³ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".”
“It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.”

Source : Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”
“The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.”
“The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.”

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