"My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick."

-- Josh Groban

#Funeral Quotes #Blast Quotes #Raises Quotes

“Information gently but relentlessly drizzles down on us in an invisible, impalpable electric rain.”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.3, Harvard University Press
“We'll blast them back into the stone ages!”
“The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.”
“[R]eductionism' is one of those things, like sin, that is only mentioned by people who are against it. To call oneself a reductionist will sound, in some circles, a bit like admitting to eating babies. But, just as nobody actually eats babies, so nobody is really a reductionist in any sense worth being against.”
“I believe that you become yourself every single day of your life through your choices and how you think. And that's constantly changing every day... You are constantly changing, evolving through your experiences, how you interpret your experiences, and how you choose to do things in the future based on those experiences... Being yourself means you think with your own mind, and you make your own choices and that makes you you.”
“There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.”

Source : Raph Koster (2013). “Theory of Fun for Game Design”, p.96, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.”

Source : Maria Monk, Theodore Dwight, John Jay Slocum, William K. Hoyte (1836). “Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk: As Exhibited in a Narrative of Her Sufferings During a Residence of Five Years as a Novice, and Two Years as a Black Nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal”, p.35, New York : Howe & Bates
“Americans have eliminated Iran's worst enemies, the Taliban in Afghanistan and Saddam [Hussein]. I occasionally threatened my Iranian counterpart in Kabul that one day I would send him a big bill for what we did. But, seriously, Iran is pursuing a dual strategy in Iraq. On the one hand, the Iranians, after decades of hostility, are now interested in good relations. On the other hand, they want to keep the country weak and dominate the region.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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