"A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about."

-- Janusz Korwin-Mikke

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“The piled-up dead of political violence are a generic staple of our information diet these days, and according to the generic report all massacres are created equal: the dead are innocent, the killers monstrous, the surrounding politics insane or nonexistent...The anonymous dead and their anonymous killers become their own context. The horror becomes absurd.”
“I would want people to take away this idea that sometimes people's problems or neuroses are really the things that are kind of a blessing in disguise, and even though there's sometimes pain associated with these things that sometimes in the face of adversity with obstacles to overcome, people can really kind of soar and find their higher selves.”

Source : "Tony Shalhoub Says Goodbye to Monk". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.
“I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didnâ€™t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldnâ€™t let me.”
“In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if youre not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.”
“The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.”

Source : Ebenezer Elliott (1876). “Poetical Works”, p.6
“If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance”
“Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.”

Source : Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.163, Routledge
“Today in America we are no more 'post-racial' than we are 'post-partisan.' We have a long way to go.”

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