"Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision."

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Herman Kahn

#Technology Quotes #Issues Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?”
“I just enjoy the ride while I have it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques ...”

Source : "This Week" with Jonathan Karl, abcnews.go.com. February 14, 2010.
“Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').”

Source : 'Anatomy of Britain' (1962) ch. 18
“When the good pictures come, we hope they tell truths, but truths 'told slant,' just as Emily Dickinson commanded.”
“Into my heart's treasury I slipped a coin That Time cannot take Nor a thief purloin- O better than the minting Of a gold-crowned king Is the safe-kept memory Of a lovely thing.”
“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.”
“Do you think that was kind? Do you think it was godlike? What would you think of a physician, if a woman came to him distressed and said, "Doctor, come to my daughter, she is very ill. She has lost her reason, and she is all I have!" What would you think of the doctor who would not reply at all at first, and then, when she fell at his feet and worshiped him, answered that he did not spend his time doctoring dogs? Would you like him as a family physician?”

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