"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the PalÃ¦ozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime."

-- Langdon Smith

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“You get to the big leagues, and you think, 'Can I do this stuff?' Then you take the first pitch down the middle for Strike 1, and you think, 'I could have hit that.'”
“Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.”
“Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing a swastika. None objected, however, to wearing the hammer and sickle on a T-shirt or a hat. It was a minor observation, but sometimes, it is through just such minor observations that a cultural mood is best observed. For here, the lesson could not have been clearer: while the symbol of one mass murder fills us with horror, the symbol of another mass murder makes us laugh.”

Source : Anne Applebaum (2007). “Gulag: A History”, p.15, Anchor
“I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It's a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.”
“The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real.”
“Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.”
“I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.”
“Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.”

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