"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."

-- Edmund Burke

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“I think, I just always want to leave the door open for, you know, I don't want it to be finished. I've never gotten sick of a song, I've played them over and over and over again, and if I get bored with something, then I'll just change that thing.”
“The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.”
“I expect a zombie to show up on 'Sesame Street' soon, teaching kids to count.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 12, 2008.
“Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point?”

Source : "A Memory of Solferino". Book by Henry Dunant, p. 66, 1862.
“I try to make concrete that which is abstract.”

Source : Response to questionnaire circulated to the Cubists by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, editors of "L'Esprit Nouveau" # 5, February 1921.
“Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system to be relied upon for a prediction of the magnitude of global warming. To the public, we all might seem like experts, but the vast majority of us work on only a small portion of the problem.”
“I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood”
“I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.”

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