"Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind."

-- Ayn Rand

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“Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.”
“Place and the scale of space must be measured against our bodies and their capabilities.”
“What's devil to some is good to some others.”
“The unsaid message of that endless rack of juniors' pushup bras? No matter what size you are, it still isn't good enough.”
“The Rock will always come back to us.”
“How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.”

Source : Arna Wendell Bontemps (1973). “The Old South: "A summer tragedy" and other stories of the thirties”, Dodd Mead
“I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.”

Source : Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.
“No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a time. The writer is convinced that this view is wholly mistaken. Nature, he suggests, will best respond to a logical and carefully thought out questionnaire; indeed, if we ask her a single question, she will often refuse to answer until some other topic has been discussed.”

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