"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"

-- Arthur Hertzberg

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“Iâ€™ve never thought of Playboy, quite frankly, as a sex magazine. I always thought of it as a lifestyle magazine in which sex was one important ingredient.”
“Iâ€™m going to carry you now,â€ he told her, â€œso we can move even faster. Iâ€™m not asking you, Iâ€™m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.”
“The United States of America is still run by its citizens. The government works for us. Rank imperialism and warmongering are not American traditions or values. We do not need to dominate the world. We want and need to work with other nations. We want to find solutions other than killing people. Not in our name, not with our money, not with our children's blood.”
“That there is no such thing as the scientific method, one might easily discover by asking several scientists to define it. One would find, I am sure, that no two of them would exactly agree. Indeed, no two scientists work and think in just the same ways.”
“I'm not going to be the next Colin Farrell or Orlando Bloom.”

Source : "On the verge" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2013.
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century France and England, or 20th-century Russia and America.”
“Part of the challenge of innovation is coming up with the problem to solve, not just its solution.”

Source : Scott Berkun (2010). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.10, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“[On her husband:] The other day he woke up with a headache. I felt sorry for him. I would like to help him but I can't. I told him so many times. When he jumps out of bed - it should be feet first.”

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