"Power from unearned privilege can look like strength when it is in fact permission to escape or to dominate."

-- Peggy McIntosh

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“The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I sacrifice myself? I am a scientist, I am supposed to be working on scientific things, so I don't need to put myself at risk by talking about these possibilities." And I have said that perhaps I'm just stubborn... I have said "I don't like anybody to tell me what to do or to think, except Mrs. Pauling."”
“I have 14 nieces and nephews.”

Source : "Aaron Paul On Playing A Meth Dealer On 'Breaking Bad'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2014.
“There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.”
“In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.”
“When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'.”
“What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.”
“I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.”
“Do console your poor friend, who is so troubled to see his paintings so miserable, so sad, next to the radiant nature he has before his eyes!”

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