"The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending."

-- Igor Stravinsky

#Starting Over Quotes #Becoming Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time ... when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstitions and darkness.”

Source : "A Disturbing 1995 Prediction by Carl Sagan Accurately Describes America of Today" by PAUL RATNER, bigthink.com.
“The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.”
“In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.”
“There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.”

Source : Letter to Boston Commercial Club, 1879.
“I attend to my fitness. I go the gym every day and try to maintain my physical fitness; without that, it is tough to take challenges on the chess board.”
“Paris strikes the vulgar part of us infinitely the most, but to a thinking mind London is incomparably the most delightful subject for contemplation.”
“Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.”
“There is no way I'm going to doubt myself at all.”

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