"My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons."

-- Gene Simmons

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“There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words. To this chiefly it is owing that we find sects and parties in most branches of science [and politics]; and disputes that are carried on from age to age, without being brought to issue.”
“So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.”

Source : Eduard Hanslick (1957). “Vom Musikalisch-Schönen”, Bobbs-Merrill Company
“The social network will be the new production line in a company,”

Source : CFR's annual Corporate Conference, New York, www.cfr.org. March 7, 2013.
“The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.”

Source : Winifred Holtby (1937). “Letters to a friend”
“Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.”
“Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.”
“But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.”
“I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

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