Ieines Quotes & Sayings

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil. — Hugo Chavez

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation. — Piero Scaruffi

And they all have pretty children,
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp,
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same. — Malvina Reynolds

He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it. — Khalil Gibran

No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. — Carroll Quigley

New facts often trigger new ideas — T.L. Osborn

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it. — Marcel Duchamp

In Greek mythology, Gods divide a human soil into two and send them world apart, and thus, each human is doomed to spend eternity looking for his/her other half — Daniel Gottlieb

We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new. — Mao Zedong

There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth
possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive
a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure! — David M. Raup