"A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure."

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Nicolas Chamfort

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“I regard it as ethically unacceptable and impractical to censor any aspect of trying to understand the nature of our world.”

Source : "Who's to blame?" by Lewis Wolpert, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2002.
“President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office”
“There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.”
“Before we move forward with new efforts to lower the barriers to international free trade, we must review the consequences of the policies of the past and address the problems of the present.”
“I speak as an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle. I have not yet given up on the idea that the experience of literature offers a kind of wisdom that cannot be discovered elsewhere; that there is profundity in the verbal encounter itself, never mind what further profundities that author has to offer; and that for a host of reasons the bound book is the ideal vehicle for the written word.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.13, Macmillan
“I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.”
“In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.”

Source : "My Chicago: Bill Kurtis On Wrigley, City Violence & Beef". Interview with Erin Chan Ding, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 01, 2011.
“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it.”

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