"The unusual wins out over the usual."

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Sam Abell

#Winning Quotes #Usual Quotes #Unusual Quotes

“I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.”
“Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes.”

Source : Jamais Cascio “Hacking the Earth”, Lulu.com
“My political sentiments inclined toward the left and emphasized the socialist aspects every bit as much as nationalist ones.”

Source : "Hitler's Beneficiaries. How the Nazis Bought the German People". Book by Götz Aly, pp. 16-17, 2007.
“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are "prefabricated" in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.”
“It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.”
“The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.”

Source : William Eggleston, John Szarkowski (2002). “William Eggleston's Guide”
“Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.”
“Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.”

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