"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

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Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

Harlan Ellison

#Love Quotes #Education Quotes #Hate Quotes

“The Louvre is the book in which we learn to read. We must not, however, be satisfied with retaining the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go forth to study beautiful nature, let us try to free our mids from them, let us strive to express ourselves according to our personal temperaments. Time and reflection, moreover, little by little modify our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us...”
“I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of love was so acute it could suffocate, and the days when joy was delirious.”
“The glory of God is the human person fully alive.”
“History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.”

Source : John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)
“The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and you could order anything you wanted to drink (even some vodka, if you liked). Pity, there are no longer tournaments organized in this manner...”
“Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.”
“I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before.' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.”
“Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.”

Source : "Vince Cable and the pants of doom" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2011.

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