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«Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?»
«A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.»
«At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago»
«It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.»
Author: Jim Bishop (Writer) | About: Living | Keywords: ago, As Far, one minute, ridiculous
«Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.»
Author: Ken Wilbur | Keywords: ago, bodies, long ago
«Four score and seven years ago, our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal»
«??when the whole group is together, each brining out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions?when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freedmen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life- natural life- has no better gift to give.?»
«Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. These islands, they were pristine. These were home to breeds of birds with no natural predators. Breeds of birds that lived nowhere else on earth. The plants there, without enemies they evolved without thorns or poisons. Without predators and enemies, these islands, they were paradise. The sailors, the next time they visited these islands, the only things still there would be herds of goats or pigs. .... Does this remind you of anything? Maybe the ol' Adam and Eve story? .... You ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?»
«American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.»
«If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.»

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