"It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions."

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Source : Cory Doctorow (2015). “For The Win”, p.69, Booklassic

Cory Doctorow

#Stupid Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. "Away with you," I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot.”
“I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity for being solid, calm, and without fear, because our society needs people like you who have these qualities, and your children, our children, need people like you, in order to go on, in order to become solid, and calm, and without fear.”
“I have just realized that the stakes are myself I have no other ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”

Source : Diane Di Prima (2007). “Revolutionary Letters”, p.7, Last Gasp
“Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.”
“In our society, most of us wear protective masks of various kinds and for various reasons. Very often the end result is that the masks grow to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.”

Source : Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.105, Rowman & Littlefield
“Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”
“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.”

Source : Roger Scruton (2011). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.11, Oxford University Press

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