"Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights."

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Peace Pilgrim

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“One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level of a child's understanding if they are to arouse the masses to historic actions. A childish illusion, fixed in the minds of all children born in a certain decade and hammered home for four years, can easily reappear as a deadly serious political ideology twenty years later.”

Source : Sebastian Haffner (2012). “Defying Hitler: A Memoir”, p.14, Hachette UK
“We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.”
“The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things"--as Swift . . . most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light.”
“I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.”
“I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems of tyranny, of injustice, of nations crossing frontiers and that injustice and tyranny should not be tolerated and should be fought and resisted, but the one thing that must not be used to solve that problem is war. Because war is inevitably the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of people. And that fact overwhelms whatever moral cause is somewhere buried in the history of that war.”
“Humans want to create lots of cool stuff, then they want to see other people using that stuff. A lot.”

Source : "NOTABLE FOUNDERS: Ben Chestnut (MailChimp)". Busy Building Things Interview, blog.busybuildingthings.com.
“Damen's The One. Always has been. Always will be.”
“It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.”

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