I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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John Cage
Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.
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B.W. Powe
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of...
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John F. Kennedy
The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas — complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.
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George F. Kennan
Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.
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Jonah Lehrer
More Quotes By Marge Piercy
To Have Without Holding:Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, lovewith the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the roomsrustling the sheets and snapping the blindsthat thwack like rubber bandsin an open palm....
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Thinking about tracking.. .. Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.
Subject that got people aroused . was Who Owns America? . <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>They had a chart going . filling in connections between the big local contractors and the steel companies and the city and county governments and the unions . <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>. and...
I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.
