"absolutes are absolutely dangerous ..."

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James Tiptree Jr.

#Dangerous Quotes #Extremes Quotes

“The moonlight lay upon the hills like snow.”

Source : Dorothy Wordsworth, Mary Trevelyan Moorman (1971). “Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; the Grasmere journals, 1800-1803”, Oxford University Press, USA
“The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments.”
“We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled.”

Source : "At the Top: An interview with Jens Stoltenberg". Interview in Torgrim Eggen, 2001.
“I like one nice man because he gets three tickets for the cinema so we've got somewhere to put our coats. He passes the test. I've been quite surprised because I really didn't expect to be wined and dined, and it's quite nice.”

Source : "Anne Robinson: My husband was the weakest link... but now I'm looking for a new man". Interview with Rebecca Hardy, www.dailymail.co.uk. August 29, 2009.
“When you have creative people, you have to let them do their thing. You have to resist the urge to be too efficient, you have to resist the urge to work to a certain budget and schedule - other than the fact that things have to end. It's harder work to produce this way but my philosophy is that you have to let it be creatively chaotic and let it find its place. When creative people are on to something, you know it and you have to allow it to happen. You can't set a schedule for that.”
“I think that notion of leadership is bankrupt.”

Source : "Lessons In Leadership: It's Not About You. (It's About Them)". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. November 11, 2013.
“It just never comes across as a quality you want in a president that you`re sitting in a room. It`s almost as if they woke up and realized, You know, we`re running against a former secretary of state. Our guy used to do the Miss Universe pageant around the world. Maybe we should try to heavy this up.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“It is curious how tyrannical the habit of reasoning is.”

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