"Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless."

-- Larry Niven

#Real Quotes #Useless Quotes

“A study was done which shows the majority of oncologists who refer patients for chemotherapy for lung cancer would not themselves take chemotherapy for lung cancer. And in fact if the chemotherapy involved cis-platen, something like 75% of them said they wouldn't take it. But what do these people do all day long? They're sending people for cis-platen.”
“Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.”
“I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustnâ€™t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because Iâ€™m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.”
“Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.”
“I wanted to preserve the feeling of remembering her just months after her death - the raw immediacy of it, so the drafts were really about getting the language right, getting the pitch right, keeping the voice austere and plainspoken.”
“If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?”

Source : "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.
“Half Europe thought... that with the Pope the Papacy was dead.”
“The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.”

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