"There ought not to be anything in the whole universe that man can't poke his nose into-that's the way we're built and I assume that there's some reason for that."

-- Robert A. Heinlein

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“Barack Obama is pretty similar to the person you see in public, at press conferences. He's a little saltier, a little more sarcastic and cutting.”

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“Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?”
“People read with their ears, whether they know it or not,”
“Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.”
“If you were starving and had all the time in the world, would you stop eating the greatest slice of cake on earth halfway through? Then why would you quit on your dreams?”
“Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.”
“Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.”
“If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'”

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