"Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object."

-- Isaac Asimov

#Drinking Quotes #Science Quotes #Giving Quotes

“I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.”
“To walk is to lack a place.”
“An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.”
“All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others.”
“The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.”
“Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all.”

Source : Robert Warshow (1962). “The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre & Other Aspects of Popular Culture”, p.97, Harvard University Press
“Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?”
“God isn't dead--he's just missing in action.”

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