#ran

It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#approach #considered #culture #i #may

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#only #order #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#beings #books #every #holy #human

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#desire #fear #here #itself #life

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. ↗

— Dee Hock

#also #different #employ #essential #humility

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates,' then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny. ↗

— Dee Hock

#leadership #nothing #only #subordinates #then

If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information. ↗

— Dee Hock

#capacity #clearly #first #form #go

If writers write, then rangers range. And I’d like to wake up every morning and be a mother, so I could eat my own clothes. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#logical #mother #ranger #writers #funny

I think that words are often extraneous to what I do. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#i #i do #i think #often #think

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#creativity #into #introduce #nature #order