"Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'"

-- Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#Motivation Quotes #Inspiration Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and the Greeks and Brecht and Tennessee Williams.”
“Since an informed citizenry is the basis for a healthy democracy, independent, non-corporate media are more crucial today than ever before”
“The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.”

Source : 'Public Advertiser' 24 April 1769, Letter 11
“Be a people builder. Look for opportunities to encourage others to bring out the best in them.”
“Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.”
“Forget thyself to marble.”
“I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrificed himself.... What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.”

Source : "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak. Paraphrase of the 1958 translation, as quoted in The New York Times (1 January 1978), 1957.
“Influence is like a savings account, the less you use it, the more you've got”

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