Quotes
Authors
Steve Hagen

"[When we drop our agendas] we begin to cultivate a mind of true goodness and compassion, which comes out of a concern for the Whole. As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of giving or of making a sacrifice. We become open, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out."

-- Steve Hagen

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“The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.”

Source : Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK
“Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.”
“Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.”
“Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.”

Source : 'The Small House at Allington' (1864) ch. 32
“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.”
“Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.”
“I dont want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.”

Source : "Paralyzed Rep. to Showcase Gun Victims at State of the Union" by John Parkinson, abcnews.go.com. February 12, 2013.
“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves”

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