"If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future."

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Source : Carl Eckart (1984). “Our Modern Idol, Mathematical Science”

Carl Eckart

#People Quotes #Cooperation Quotes #Plans Quotes

“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.”
“My eyes adored ya Though I never laid a hand on you My eyes adored ya Like a million miles away from me you couldn't see how I adored ya So close, so close and yet so far”
“Of the twenty-four hours a day, Use six for earning and spending, six for contemplation of God, six of sleep and six for service to others.”
“I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.”
“The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects.”
“If we turn to the differences separating Communist, Fascist, and National Socialist regimes, we find that they can be accounted for by contrasting social, economic, and cultural condition in which the three had to operate. In other words, they resulted from tactical adaptation of the same philosophy of government to local circumstances, not from different philosophies.”

Source : "Russia Under The Bolshevik Regime". Book by Richard Pipes, 1993.
“The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.”
“The public still ultimately determines what happens to you politically, by virtue of the casting of their vote ... and you cannot ever predict what will move the public in one direction or another.”

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