"Basically, Iâ€™m not interested in doing research and I never have been . . . Iâ€™m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it."

-- David Blackwell

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“Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry?”
“Because, remember, I didnâ€™t want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.”
“The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but penetrating, as though he were undressing them. This is followed either by complete and pained silence or a comment such as 'That's really a very pleasant little water color you have there.”
“Between richer and poorer classes in a free country a mutually respecting antagonism is much healthier than pity on the one hand and dependence on the other, as is, perhaps, the next best thing to fraternal feeling.”
“A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.”
“The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.”
“Freedom is coming to mean little more than the right to ask permission.”
“I think character is permanent, and issues are transient.”

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