"When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?"

-- Richard Mitchell

#Society Quotes #Events Quotes #Wonder Quotes

“What the framers of the Constitution tried to achieve when they wrote that Constitution back in the 1700s was an independent federal judiciary. They wanted federal judges to be appointed by the president, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and to serve for good behavior.”
“I think every intelligent woman should have a career.”

Source : "Fictional character: Nancy Drew". "Nancy Drew: Detective", www.imdb.com. 1938.
“And would'st thou evil for his good repay?”
“No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.”
“The ban directly hampers the partys ability to spread its message and hamstrings voters seeking to inform themselves about the candidates and issues,”
“I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.”
“We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict thingsâ€”and we arenâ€™t very good at it.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.19, Penguin
“In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.”

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