"I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace."

-- Markus Wolf

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“The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.”
“The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.”
“It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.”

Source : "Understanding Uncertainty". Book by Dennis Lindley (Chapter 5 "The Rules of Probability", p. 64), 2006.
“Poe is a kind of Hawthorne and delirium tremens.”

Source : Sir Leslie Stephen (1875). “Hours in a Library”, p.227
“We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test.”
“I've been an acquaintance of the president Ryan Glover for some years and for a couple years we've been talking about possibilities, puzzle pieces fitting together. I was doing an event that they were sponsoring, and after a group of us went to dinner and we started talking a little bit more and one thing led to another.We all thought it might be a good idea to try to develop a show and as we started talking about the show that we might bring to air, it turned into doing a newsmagazine.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com
“Our lives are short and everything sort of regresses to the mean.”
“The funny thing about our act is that dad gets the worst of it, although I'm the one who apparently receives the bruises . . . the secret is in landing limp and breaking the fall with a foot or a hand. It's a knack. I started so young that landing right is second nature with me. Several times I'd have been killed if I hadn't been able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment.”

Source : Interview in "The Detroit News", December 4, 1914.

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