"I'm friggin' awesome! So screw the haters!"

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Jackson Pearce

“I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.”
“Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?”
“Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.”

Source : "Justice For Sale". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 19, 2010.
“In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.”

Source : Larry Niven (2010). “Stars and Gods”, p.363, Macmillan
“AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.”
“Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. â€œFocus on your potential instead of your limitations.”
“The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?”
“I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.”

Source : "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.

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