"... the whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion."

-- Storm Jameson

#Art Quotes #Passion Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.”
“Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty.”
“Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).”
“Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.”
“I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.”
“Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.”

Source : Address to the British Institute of Management, December 13, 1977.
“I'm not interested myself personally right now in doing anything. We went there. We lost a lot of blood, a lot of treasure, did a lot for them. They weren't interested in us staying. They made a choice.”
“The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.”

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