"Brains are no good if you don't use them."

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Source : "Rite of Passage". Book by Alexei Panshin, 1968.

Alexei Panshin

#Brain Quotes #Use Quotes

“Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.”

Source : Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.
“Taking refuge means that you align and orient your life toward Buddha's example and toward enlightenment.”
“I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing.”
“Everyone disappoints [Larry Kramer]. So it's not a problem for him either way.”

Source : Source: fourtwonine.com
“Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence-by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. ... So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed-only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.”
“The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.”
“Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kailash Satyarthi from Jul 09, 2015
“I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.”

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