"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done."

-- Chuck Yeager

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“You are a writer when you tell yourself you are. No one else's opinion matters. Screw them. You are when you say you are.”
“Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.”
“I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.”
“The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.”

Source : Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan
“My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.”
“What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of justice distorted; he has listened to his conscience until conscience becomes a trumpet call to like-minded men, so that they gather about him, and together, with mutual purpose and mutual aid, they make a new period in history.”
“But the thing about a cry for help is that someone else needs to be around to hear it.”
“Stem cells are probably going to be extremely useful. But it isn't a given, and even if it were, I don't think the end justifies the means. I am not against stem cells, I think it's great. Blanket objection is not very reasonable to me-any effort to control scientific advances is doomed to fail. You cannot stop the human mind from working.”

Source : "A Conversation With: Joseph E. Murray; On Surgical Innovation And The Questions It Can Raise". Interview With Cornelia Dean, www.nytimes.com. September 25, 2001.

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