"Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that."

-- James Hansen

#Needs Quotes #Influence Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.”
“I deeply regret to say that terrorism has become globalized: ' From New York to Mosul, from Damascus to Baghdad, from the Easternmost to the Westernmost parts of the world, from Al-Qaeda to Daesh'. The extremists of the world have found each other and have put out the call: 'extremists of the world unite'. But are we united against the extremists?”

Source : "Iran's Dinner Diplomacy" by Robin Wright, www.newyorker.com. September 26, 2014.
“I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.”
“a mother is God's deputy on earth.”
“When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be).”
“Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.”

Source : 1989 Everywoman's Money Book (with Lynne MacFarlane).
“If I'd gone straight to the NBA, I don't think I would have been ready as a player or a person.”
“Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.”

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