"I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that."

-- Garrison Keillor

#Thinking Quotes #History Quotes

“1. "What do you really want to get out of life?" 2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can?”
“If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.”
“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”

Source : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
“It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart who has achieved a great deal in her life. So easy to vilify her and hate her and try to destroy her life. Woe to anyone today who is not slender, young, clever and politically correct.”
“To be the announcer where you live is a very special opportunity.”
“And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.”

Source : "Radioactivity Experiment and the Human Aftermath Wins a Pulitzer", www.nytimes.com. April 13, 1994.
“I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.”
“Of course, you don't have to have a degree to be rich. You just have to have ideas. Maybe having a degree sets you back, for it stuffs you into tick-tock [the daily grind of work], and perhaps that stifles your creative mind. But the fact is that many millionaires have few educational qualifications of any kind at all. However, they still have knowledge. The difference is, they have knowledge they can sell, and others have the "common knowledge" of tick-tock, which isn't worth as much, if anything at all.”

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