"I had taken a partner once beforeâ€”but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

#Taken Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.”
“Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.”
“The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.”
“The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics”

Source : Jonathan Alter (2008). “Between the Lines: A View Inside American Politics, People, and Culture”
“I felt I had dissolved into a pure energy state and become one with the magnetic field surrounding the earth”
“The physical five oranges goes up the ladder to the picture of the five oranges which goes up to the representation of the five oranges as a numeral. This points in the direction of a definition of abstraction: when we abstract we voluntarily ignore details of a context, so that we can accomplish a goal.”
“I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.”
“I like to get paid for doing basic research, so it's pleasant to write some nonfiction about it.”

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