"Think about one of the most powerful influences on a young child's life - the absence of a father figure. Look back on recent presidents, and you'll find an absent, or weak, or failed father in the lives of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama."

-- Jeff Greenfield

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“On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.”

Source : "At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament". Book by Derek Jarman, 1992.
“The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to non-physicists who will not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached. Physics and Philosophy”
“You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.”
“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.”
“There's always a tomorrow and the hope of something new.”
“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
“I'm so not a financial person.”
“Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1997). “The Origins of Modern Science”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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