"At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular."

-- Jesse L. Greenstein

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“Prostitution reinforces all the old dumb clichÃ©s about women's sexuality; that they are not built to enjoy sex and are little more than walking masturbation aids, things to be DONE TO, things so sensually null and void that they have to be paid to indulge in fornication, that women can be had, bought, as often as not sold from one man to another. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.”

Source : "Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised". Book by Julie Burchill, 1986.
“Attention to detail is of utmost importance when you want to look good.”
“Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards, who won't cry when she's knocked to the ground while trying to board the six o clock Eastern shuttle, and whose schedule doesn't allow for a sexual encounter lasting more than twelve minutes.”
“What people don't realize is that China papered over its last two credit bubbles, those in 1999 and 2004. The banks were never bailed out - they just exchanged their bad loans for questionable bonds from quasi-state organizations.”
“Sometimes when you have an abundance of time and money, it's less conducive to the creative process. I like the urgency of the television schedule and the television price point. It's fluid. You figure it out on the day, and I love the challenge of problem-solving.”
“As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know youâ€™ve really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.”

Source : Guy Adams: I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship, www.independent.co.uk. July 30, 2012.
“[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.”

Source : William Henry Fox Talbot (1992). “Henry Fox Talbot: Selected Texts and Bibliography”
“I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.”

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