"To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK."

-- Ann Rutherford

#Tests Quotes #Acid Quotes #Crew Quotes

“The ideological are individuals ultimately swamped by the complexities of modern life and political and economic relations; they have deliberately attached themselves to some caricatural maven like Falwell or Limbaugh who speaks to their manipulable pathos. The gulf between such individuals' education or intellectual competence or information and the actual issues of our times is simply too great. They were bred to be culture-media for false consciousness, junkies who crawl on their bellies across broken glass for another hit of "clarifying wisdom" from some ideological Pope.”
“A world without war is not in the cards.”
“I was the second-best player in high school. I was the second pick in the draft. I've been second in the MVP voting three times. I came in second in the Finals. I'm tired of being second. I'm not going to settle for that. I'm done with it.”

Source : "Kevin Durant sick of second, working for first with help of advanced stats" by Ben Golliver, www.si.com. April 23, 2013.
“I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth”
“Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.”

Source : Cornelius Lanczos (1970). “Space through the ages: The evolution of geometrical ideas from Pythagoras to Hilbert and Einstein”
“Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.”
“Products a start-up builds are really experimentsâ€¦Learning about how to build a sustainable business is the outcome of those experiments [which follow] a three-step process: Build, measure, learn.â€Â â€œ[A startup is] â€¦ an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.”
“There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.”

Source : Simon Wiesenthal (2008). “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness”, p.95, Schocken

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