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“Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever, with the heater on, and the defroster on, protected from the rain and the cold? It hasn’t been much longer than that we’ve had lighting for streets. Think of all that darkness, all that world out there, all that mystery that we’ve turned into well-lighted concrete bunkers, safe and warm and dull.”
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“The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.”
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“The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.”
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“It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.”
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“For me a day without training is like a day without eating.”
Source : "Gebrselassie running into history". Interview with Brian Cazeneuve, www.si.com. March 24, 2010.
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“There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.”
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“I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.”
Source : Nancy Springer (2009). “The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline: An Enola Holmes Mystery”, p.44, Penguin