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“When you're out of quality, you're out of business.”
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“Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.”
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“We are but whirlpools in a river of ever-flowing water. We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message, and may be transmitted as a message.”
Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.96, Da Capo Press
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“Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being.”
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“From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.”
Source : Herman Kahn (1985). “Thinking Unth 80SP”, p.30, Simon and Schuster
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“These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts.”
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“In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening - no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.”
Source : Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
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“I'm not afraid to be one of the martyrs people have offered in the struggle for their just demands.”
Source : "Iran opposition leader Mousavi 'ready to die' for reform" by Robert Tait, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010. 
