"People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal."

-- Michael Howard

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“Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 19, 2011
“Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the immanent and transcendent Godhead.”
“I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.”

Source : "Ken Livingstone tells Jewish Chronicle of his contrition over leaked remarks" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2012.
“Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God." Samuel smiled in relief. This, finally, he understood. "Which word?" "What?" "Well, God's said a lot of words, you know, and a word like 'it' or 'the' wouldn't be worth hearing again but its always fun listening to Him try and say aluminum.”
“In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.”

Source : Brian Cox (2009). “Why Does E: (and why Should We Care?)”, p.5, Da Capo Press
“If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.”
“I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.”
“They have accorded me my constitutional rights, and that is to their credit because the media hate campaign against me has been so intense and so vicious that it's a miracle that the police have taken such a professional approach.”

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