"If this really is true, then greed really isn't good, after all. It really isn't the way to maximize the best possible outcome. We really do need to come together and act collectively. Government isn't always the problem. It's sometimes the solution. And, so their whole intellectual scaffolding collapses. So, they'd rather deny the science."

-- Naomi Klein

#Government Quotes #Greed Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.”
“The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.”
“In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.”
“I think that the mourning process of the film involves discussing it, dissecting it, and at some point, you get bored with it. I'm not there yet, but I know I will be there at some point. That's the moment when I know I need to turn the page and move on and recharge my batteries.”
“When the long awaited solution to the UFO problem comes, I believe that it will prove to be not merely the next small step in the march of science but a mighty and totally unexpected quantum jump.”
“The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.”
“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
“The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true: the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could.”

Source : Gilbert Burnet (1809). “Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of K. Charles II to the Conclusion of the Treaty of Peace at Utrecht, in the Reign of Queen Anne. To which is Prefixed, a Summary Recapitulation of Affairs in Church and State, from King James I. to the Restoration in the Year 1660. Together with the Author's Life and Some Explanatory Notes”, p.235

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