#mat

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#converted #culture #destroy #does #exist

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. ↗

— John Naisbitt

#becomes #data #increasingly #information #intuition

I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. ↗

— John Forbes Nash, Jr.

#characteristic #disability #entirely #good #health

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered. ↗

— Martina Navratilova

#i #mattered #people #somehow #stop

At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us access to materials. And the biographies, there are four or five, ranging from very poor to excellent. ↗

— Liam Neeson

#biographies #days #excellent #few #five

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#more #other #people #really #than

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#best #efficiency #existing #highest #highest type

The fact is: our faith is more rational than the most elaborate paradigm of the atheistic foundationalist, more romantic than the wildest dreams of the unbelieving postmodernist. our faith is a dogma that makes you dance. ↗

— Reggie M. Kidd

#rationalism #romaticism #dreams

We do not have the luxury of two big oceans protecting us as we have had in the past, for we now have a new kind of enemy who deals with stealthiness. Our ability to protect ourselves is having the information ahead of time so we can thwart the attack. ↗

— Bill Nelson

#ahead #attack #big #deals #enemy

The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#art #art history #enormous #going #had