"There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Humanity Quotes #Reason Quotes #Motive Quotes

“O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.”
“I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.”
“That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.”
“Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving!”
“The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.”
“Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet.”
“I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.”
“So many stories are determined before they start.”

Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.12, Counterpoint Press

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