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They feed back exactly what is given them. Because they do not believe in words - words are for "typeheads," Chester Anderson tells them, and a thought which needs words is just one more of those ego trips - their only proficient vocabulary is in the society's platitudes. As it happens I am still committed to the idea that the ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language, and I am not optimistic about children who will settle for saying, to indicate that their... Joan Didion
George Gissing quote: "I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say,..."
I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it. George Gissing
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds. Carl Rogers
Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society - and especially in the economy - as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. That is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur. It was intended as a manifesto and as a declaration of dissent: the entrepreneur upsets and disorganizes. As Joseph Schumpeter... Peter Drucker
Steven Moffat quote: "Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the..."
Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below Steven Moffat
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal. George Orwell
Art Linkletter quote: "Kids do say the darndest things"
Kids do say the darndest things Art Linkletter
Listen, I would say, this is not how I thought our lives would go; and may be we cannot find our way out of this alley. But there is no one I'd rather be lost with. Jodi Picoult
Henrik Ibsen quote: "A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule..."
A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer. Henrik Ibsen
It was easy for you to say these things, since you either knew you were not writing to Luther, but for the general public, or you did not reflect that it was Luther you were writing against, whom I hope you allow nonetheless to have some acquaintance with Holy Writ and some judgment in respect of it. Martin Luther
Lewis Carroll quote: "Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time."
Curtsey while you're thinking what to say. It saves time. Lewis Carroll
Charles M. Schulz quote: "There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really..."
There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say. Charles M. Schulz
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths. Eudora Welty
It is a little disappointing to expect a detailed report on your work and to receive instead such a vague rhapsody as your last letter. You say you are "delirious with joy" because the European humans have started another of their wars. I see very well what has happened to you. You are not delirious; you are only drunk. C. S. Lewis
You will go on, and when you have prevailed You can say: at this point many a one has failed. But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end. I shall sit here, serving tea to friends... T. S. Eliot

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