Fame and Gullibility – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fame Is Proof That The People Are Gullible”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Alvin Toffler on the Possibility of Human Cloning
“One of the more fantastic possibilities is that man will be able to make biological carbon copies of himself.”
Alvin Toffler
Marxism and Illusion – Michael John Novak Jr.
“To persuade thinking persons in Eastern Europe that Central American Marxists – the Sandinistas, the guerillas in El Salvador – are in absurd and tragic error is not difficult. Poles and Czechs and Hungarians can hardly believe, after what they experienced under socialism, that other human beings would fall for the same bundle of lies, half-truths, and distortions. Sadly, however, illusion is often sweeter to human taste than reality. The last marxist in the world will probably be an American nun.”
Michael John Novak Jr.
Change and Anxiety – Robert G. Kegan
“That ‘change makes us uncomfortable’ is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we ‘know’ to be present that causes us anxiety.”
Robert G. Kegan
Tension in the Mind and Nonviolence – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
Truth and Concealment in Mormon Church History – Dennis Michael Quinn
“The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.”
Dennis Michael Quinn
Quote by Haruki Murakami about Love and Loss
“Losing you is most difficult for me, but the nature of my love for you is what matters. If it distorts into half-truth, then perhaps it is better not to love you. I must keep my mind but loose you.”
Haruki Murakami
The Waves: A Quote by Unknown
“The waves are dancing mountains, singing mountains, they are blue, green, white crowned with foam.”
Unbekannt
Quote by Steven Spielberg: Why pay a dollar for a bookmark?
“Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?”
Steven Spielberg
Quote by Steven Spielberg on the making of ‘E.T.’
“‘E.T.’ began with me trying to write a story about my parents’ divorce.”
Steven Spielberg