"The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into something new and original, creating instead of consuming."

-- Robert Greene

#Creating Quotes #Mind Quotes #Information Quotes

“We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and justifies resumption of the armed conflict.”
“If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.”

Source : James Mill (1821). “The Article Government: Reprinted from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica”, p.4
“Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i.e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.”
“It is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.”

Source : Arthur S. Eddington, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (1926). “The Internal Constitution of the Stars”, p.393, Cambridge University Press
“The local church is the hope of the world.”
“genius has no limit of sex or race.”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1924). “The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920”, Hyperion Pr
“Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.”
“Mac people use their computers; Windows people put up with their computers”

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