"We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either by an automatic device ... or by a pre-programmed president who, whether he knows it or not, will be carrying out orders written years before by some operations analyst."

-- Herbert York

#Determination Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Order Quotes

“dealing with loss and heartache doesn't make you stronger. It only makes people think you are.”
“Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells.”
“You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.”
“There is something wrong with you if you don't get angry about something.”
“There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.”
“Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.”
“What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?”
“I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.”

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