#hip

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul. ↗

— Marc Allen

#entrepreneurship #purpose #dreams

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States -- and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death! ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#education #free-speech #paraphrased #death

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#friendship

They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire! ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#education #elitism #higher-education #scholars #scholarship

Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#development #education #politics #education

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books ↗

— Stephen Fry

#friendship #wine #education

A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly ↗

— Henry Adams

#friendship #education

When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love

[A] friend in power is a friend lost. ↗

— Henry Adams

#friendship #power #education

Despite all that education and experience can do, I retain a certain level of unsophistication that I cannot eradicate and that my friends find amusing. In fact, I think I sometimes detect conspiratorial plottings among my friends to protect me against my own lack of sophistication. I don't mind. I suspect that I am never quite as unsophisticated as they think I am, but I don't mind. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#humor #sophistication #education