"Family' is not just a biological word, it's an an operative one."

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Andrew Vachss

“Remember, the death penalty is murder.”
“You are not your buttocks.”
“I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?”
“In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.”
“When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.”
“And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.”
“I believed that we would all come to better decisions and we would create more humane and ultimately more livable and more sustainably productive workplaces if we knew how to speak to each other about difficult issues and if we were more able to listen to and learn from diverse points of view.”
“To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.”

Source : "Inward Bound : Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World" by Abraham Pais, (p. 134), 1988.

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