"You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate."

-- Arthur Rudolph

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“I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.”
“Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.”

Source : "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.
“Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.”
“And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.”
“If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.”

Source : "Sir James Goldsmith, Financier, Dies at 64" by Youssed M. Ibrahim, www.nytimes.com. July 20, 1997.
“The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school].... In the long run, a child's emotional development has a far greater impact on his life than his school performance or the curriculum's richness, so it is wise to do everything possible to change a situation in which a child is suffering excessively.”
“Live concerts were to train the ears and to introduce, constantly, new musical ideas to the audience so the next time they showed up or the next record they would be ready and receptive.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I'd been a child during the 1960s when women burned their bras and hundreds of thousands gathered in protests against the Vietnam War. As a climber, I've felt connected to a similar nonconformist culture, one opposed to society's increasing materialism, pollution and corruption. Our approach to the rockâ€”clean, traditional climbing, with the least dependence on equipmentâ€”was an extension of this ethical viewpoint.”

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