"We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities."

-- Arthur Ashe

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“Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe. ... Every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.”

Source : "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.
“The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.”
“Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.”
“I didnâ€™t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face Iâ€™d found so attractive at the airport. But you were there all right: the blue eyes, blondish hair, and tiny scar. Only you didnâ€™t look beautiful this time. Just evil.”
“It's possible to love without sacrificing-but who would notice? For love is demonstrated only through sacrifice-without it, love is invisible.”
“Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.”
“We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.”
“There's people that figure if they hang out with you, all of a sudden they're going to be successes. I've had two or three stalkers in my life”

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