#ado

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us. ↗

— Paul Valery

#capital #discovery #folly #inborn #metaphor

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#any #cycle #go #new #new technology

But I don't really see myself as a role model. I'm not a dictator, or someone who wants to be adored! ↗

— Isabella Rossellini

#dictator #i #model #myself #really

I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt. ↗

— Billy Carter

#brother #conform #i #image #lot

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#being #darkness #daylight #into #moon

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#courage #even #his #keep #life

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#gets #make #make no mistake #mistake #out

An easily accessible and transparent database of contract information will bring sunshine into the confusing and sometimes shadowy practice of government contracting. ↗

— Tom Coburn

#bring #confusing #contract #contracting #database

Power is paradoxical. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#paradoxical

Nothing is further from the truth than the claim that the American soul is ‘open-minded’ and unbiased; on the contrary, it is ridden with countless taboos of which people are sometimes not even aware. ↗

— Julius Evola

#paradoxical #truth #religion