"A barrier is of ideas, not of things."

-- Mark Cane

#Ideas Quotes #Overcoming Quotes #Obstacles Quotes

“Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.”
“I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.”
“I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.”
“Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.”
“It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.”
“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.”
“I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.”
“The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second only to American political campaigns - the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.”

Source : Larry Laudan (2012). “Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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