We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship, ’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.
When you make a choice, you change the future.
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Deepak Chopra
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Ernst F. Schumacher
A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.
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Eoin Colfer
Naive people tend to generalize people as–-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the world is not the wisest or the most spiritual, in all matters. We are all flawed. Maybe, you didn’t know a few of...
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Shannon L. Alder
Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more offensive than feeling like you have to re-evaluate your own...
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By David Mamet
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
It's only words... unless they're true.
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
Society functions in a way much more interesting than the multiple-choice pattern we have been rewarded for succeeding at in school. Success in life comes not from the ability to choose between the four presented answers, but from the rather more difficult and painfully acquired...
In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets...
