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“If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore ?”
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“Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.”
Source : John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.626, World Scientific
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“Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.”
Source : Caryl Rivers (1991). “More joy than rage: crossing generations with the new feminism”, Univ Pr of New England
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“Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.”
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“Wayne was one of the worst drivers Finn had ever met. The bus nearly sideswiped two cars, then veered left and scraped its wheels against the curb, before smashing back down the roadway.”
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“A friend of mine who is in the publishing business knew I was writing a book, and he said, 'Have you said anything yet about the good guy? Because I know you spend so much time with the bad guys.' Because they're fun. So then you have to make the good guy fun, in order to compete. That's the challenge.”
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“If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.”
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“True inward quietness is not that which may be produced by shutting out all outward causes of distraction -- a process which, when carried out too severely, may intensify the inward ferment of the mind, especially in the young. It is rather a state of stable equilibrium; it is not vacancy, but stability -- the steadfastness of a single purpose.”
Source : Caroline Emelia Stephen (1908). “Light Arising: Thoughts on the Central Radiance”
