"Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country."

-- John McCain

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“Now, science cannot completely exclude the possibility of supernatural explanation. It is possible though very unlikely that our whole world is controlled by elves. But supernatural explanations like these are simply never needed; we manage to understand the natural world just fine using reason and materialism.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA
“Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.”
“Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.”

Source : Lady Bird Johnson (2007). “A White House Diary”, p.79, University of Texas Press
“Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their â€œworkâ€ is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention. Why didn't I reread my F. Scott Fitzgerald sooner? I might have saved myself some time.”
“A fair trial would have been no trial at all.”
“The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are mutually deceived.”
“It is my absolute intent to hold the line on taxes.”

Source : "Sen. Corzine enters New Jersey governor's race", www.cnn.com. December 2, 2004.
“There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.”

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