"Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma."

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Frank Herbert

#Experts Quotes #Useless Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“Every minister worthy of the name has to walk the line between prophetic vision and spiritual sustenance, between telling people the comforting things they want to hear and challenging them with the difficult things they need to hear. In Oxford, Daddy began to feel as though all the members wanted him to do was to marry them and bury them and stay away from their souls.”

Source : Timothy B. Tyson (2007). “Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story”, p.16, Broadway Books
“Brock Lesnar is not here to put smiles on people's faces. Brock Lesnar is here to shock the WWE Universe and put TEARS in the EYES of CHILDREN!”

Source : "WWE Raw/ Episode #22.14". Sport, April 7, 2014.
“What writing does is to reveal.”
“Life is so endlessly delicious”
“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.”

Source : Cornelius Vanderbilt (1956). “Queen of the Golden Age: the fabulous story of Grace Wilson Vanderbilt”
“Failure is not an option on this one.”
“I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.”

Source : Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.334, Macmillan
“Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses-and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius-and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.”

Source : Norman Robert Campbell (1953). “What is science?”

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