"The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West."

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Source : Harold Adams Innis (1948). “Minerva's owl: presidential address reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada, 1947”

Harold Innis

#Plato Quotes #Writing Quotes #Mixtures Quotes

“Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.”
“Reform is Chinas second revolution.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The idea of a talent that was bigger than an artist's ability to choose to use it, that would dictate the artist's life more than the artist could dictate, was interesting to me.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back”
“You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.”
“Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.”
“A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.”
“I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.”

Source : "Q&A: Colts QB Andrew Luck talks leadership, staying healthy... and acting". Interview with Eric Edholm, sports.yahoo.com. August 26, 2014.

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