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Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.


Archimedes


#determination #discovery #invention #opportunity #change

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.


William J Federer


#government #inventions #thoughts #change

Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter.


Patrick Cockburn


#conventional-thinking #euphemism #language #laziness #savagery

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.


Katharine Fullerton Gerould


#burden #chiefly #conventional #credited #falls

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.


John Kenneth Galbraith


#job #painful #protect #serves #thinking

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.


Theodore C. Sorensen


#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.


Tennessee Williams


#artist #invention #world #art

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up.


Debbie Wasserman Schultz


#bottom #build #class #coming #convention

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.


Agha Hasan Abedi


#definition #developing #done #getting #management

The Summer of Love had already given way to the the winter of Who the f--k are you?


Jaffe Cohen


#seventies #love






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