"Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong."

“If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.”

Source : "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007.

“Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.”

Source : George Clinton (2014). “Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?: A Memoir”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

“It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating.”

“The only time I commit to conspiracy theories is when something way retarded happens. Like Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.”

“If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do.”

“If you are not prepared to resign or be fired for what you believe in, then you are not a worker, let alone a professional. You are a slave.”

Source : "The Ethical Mind". Howard Gardner, Harvard Business Review, March 2007.

“All cultural explorers. . . start off from specific roots which color their vision and define the allegiances of the work of art they produce.”

“A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.”

Source : Ted Godwin, Luther Pokrant (2002). “The Studio Handbook for Working Artists: A Survival Manual”, p.40, University of Regina Press