"The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most engaging stories goes first, the longer of the two goes at the end, and everything else goes in the middle."

-- Roy Kesey

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“I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.”
“One has to watch out for engineers. They begin with the sewing machine and end up with the atomic bomb.”
“My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.”

Source : "'NCIS' Actress Pauley Perrette's Endless Nightmare Divorce" by Roger Friedman, www.foxnews.com. September 28, 2006.
“To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.”
“Gareth Jellyman has just been dismissed, I think he's thrown a wobbler”
“Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster
“Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.”
“Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.”

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