"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."

-- Eric Hoffer

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“Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a process.”
“The lower half of households by wealth held just 3% of wealth in 1989 and only 1% in 2013.”
“Certainly I enjoy the outrÃ© and I enjoy artistic comics and surrealism in comics very much. But the decision I made and have stuck with and refined was the decision to try to be funny and communicate humor. Once you put that ahead of everything else, it resolves those other questions for you.”
“I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.”
“Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.”
“The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.”
“The successful sale of British Telecom...reveals a vast and untapped yearning among ordinary people for a direct stake in the ownership of British enterprise. Investment in shares has begun to take its place, with ownership of a home and either a bank or building society deposit, as a way for ordinary people to participate in enterprise and wealth creation. We are seeing the birth of people's capitalism.”

Source : "The View from No. 11: Memoirs of a Tory Radical". Book by Nigel Lawson, 1992.
“The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.”

Source : "Is It Too Late to Stop the Warming?" by Ned Potter, abcnews.go.com. March 26, 2006.

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