"If I ever get to 100, I'd want to be filled with wonder and wild, adolescent, wide-eyed interest in newness. So let's keep the flame burning. Let's stop thinking everyone over 29, or 49, has to be reinforced by concrete."

-- Tanith Lee

#Thinking Quotes #Flames Quotes #Burning Quotes

“Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of extending it across different platforms and merchandise.”
“The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.”
“If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.”
“George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).”
“Not everyone is willing to embrace liberty; liberty requires not just effort, but risk. Some people choose to delude themselves and see their chains as protective armor.”

Source : Terry Goodkind (2010). “Chainfire”, p.85, Macmillan
“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”
“Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.”
“We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.”

Source : "Toronto 2012: Javier Bardem Says U.S., U.N. Risk More Violence in Northern Africa, Middle East". Interview with Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 13, 2012.

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