"Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission."

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James Buchan

#Technology Quotes #Zeppelins Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from age to age.”

Source : "Race Adjustment: Essays on the Negro in America".
“Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.”

Source : "Danny Boyle: 'As soon as you think you can do whatever you want... then you're sunk'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.
“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.”
“The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.”

Source : 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA
“Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.”
“I learned a woman is never an old woman.”
“Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them- and you never will .”
“Tony Blair will be remembered for nothing other than that he followed George W. Bush over a cliff; took the rest of us with them, and we haven't yet reached the bottom, I'm afraid.”

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