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“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.”
Gore Vidal
“If there is any delay in that feedback loop between thinking of something and seeing it and building on it, then there is this whole world of ideas which will never be.”
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Bret Victor
“These are thoughts that we can't think.”
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Bret Victor
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.”
Sophia Loren
“Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.”
Ayn Rand
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.”
Helen Keller
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
Helen Keller
“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
Helen Keller
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
Helen Keller
“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“Love is metaphysical gravity.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
R. Buckminster Fuller
“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
Aristotle
“You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”
Aristotle
“Change in all things is sweet.”
Aristotle
“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.”
Aristotle
“The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.”
Aristotle
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
Aristotle
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.”
Aristotle
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle