"I think we have a need to know what we do not need to know."

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Source : "On Language; CLASS CLEAVAGE" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 1986.

William Safire

#Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.”
“It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.”
“Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.”
“In some places - particularly in Asia and Europe - you often see anti-government graffiti, seditious slogans, banners, leaflets, in certain neighbourhoods. The idea is that rather than wait for an explosion to occur from a bomb, it would be useful to gather intelligence on the location of these incidents.”

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“All these other nations seem to appreciate what I'm doing and they want me to play the furthest out things.”
“Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view.”
“What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.”
“Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.”

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