"Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization."

-- Daniel Quinn

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“Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.”
“. . . in America, we have achieved the Orwellian prediction - enslaved, the people have been programmed to love their bondage and are left to clutch only mirage-like images of freedom, its fables and fictions. The new slaves are linked together by vast electronic chains of television that imprison not their bodies but their minds. Their desires are programmed, their tastes manipulated, their values set for them.”
“I could spend a whole day at a spa. Id get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.”
“Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.”
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“I don't really like the autumn. For me it is the beginning of winter and I hate the winter. White, the colour of death.”
“My doctor told me that I'm old, fat, and ugly, but none of those things is going to kill me immediately.”

Source : "Roger Ailes Off Camera". Book by Ze'ev Chafets, www.vanityfair.com. 2013.
“There is a much higher probability that a first-class scholar should commit an error than that an author who usually writes nonsense should have one good idea.”

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