"The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes."

-- Margaret Halsey

#Emotional Quotes #People Quotes #Atmosphere Quotes

“Italy will start the future. Because in the last 20, 20 years, Italy discussed only about the past. "Oh, the past is wonderful in Italy." Look, look Palazzo Vecchio. The most beautiful place in the world, in my opinion, I think this is incredible place. But the past is not sufficient. Is not enough. We need the future. Because we are Italians. And Italy is not only a museum.”
“I am well versed in reading the pages of war.”

Source : Janusz Korczak (1980). “The Ghetto Years, 1939-1942”
“Fear is incomplete knowledge”
“In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.”
“The next grand extensions of mathematical physics will, in all likelihood, be furnished by quaternions.”

Source : "Note on a Quaternion Transformation", Communication read on Monday, 6th April, 1863, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 117, 1866.
“No person, no idea, and no religion deserves to be illegal to insult, not even the Church of Emacs.”

Source : "Political notes from 2007: January - April". Personal Website, www.stallman.org. March 01, 2007.
“For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.”
“This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.”

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