"Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available"

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Source : Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.182, Spectra

Gregory Benford

#Real Quotes #Passion Quotes #Information Quotes

“Man, I smashed her like an Idaho Potato”
“While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I love working with smart-funny people.”
“All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.”
“Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.”

Source : Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business
“I spend as much time as I can sketching from nature, Dartmoor contains such a rich variety of landscape, as many boulders, foaming rivers and twisted trees as my heart could ever desire. . . . When I look into a river, I feel I could spend a whole lifetime just painting that river.”
“Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment”
“No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals”

Source : Irving Kristol (1995). “Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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