"Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility."

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Source : James Gleick (2011). “Chaos: Making a New Science”, p.44, Open Road Media

James Gleick

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on...”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 19, 2012
“Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone”

Source : Song: You Never Know, 2003
“New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.”
“In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.”
“Governments first of all have been able to amass, through the taxation process, large sums of capital which they have redistributed to persons or groups, already large holders of capital, through official subsidies.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.54, Verso
“Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.”
“Hemp will be the future of all mankind, or there won't be a future.”
“The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.”

Source : "Peter Thiel Talks About the Day Mark Zuckerberg Turned Down Yahoo's $1 Billion". www.inc.com. March 12, 2013.

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