"readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust."

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Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

David Gelernter

#Numbers Quotes #Needs Quotes #Looks Quotes

“Compassion is something really worthwhile. It is not just a religious or spiritual subject, not a matter of ideology. It is not a luxury, it is a necessity.”
“My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original settingâ€¦ but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me.”

Source : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”
“I did not share the enthusiasm of certain politicians for the National Front leader, it was because I had noticed, in the past, some strange contradictions between Mossadeq's declared ends and his actions. Officially he defended nationalist anti-colonialism and was the most intransigent patriot who declared that no concessions or advantages should be granted to foreign powers. He described his doctrine as a "negative balance" and in fact his greatest failing was that he was negative.”
“It's good to remember where you've been.”

Source : FaceBook post by Traci Lords from Jan 02, 2015
“You canâ€™t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.”
“Men. You can't live with them, you can't shoot them.”
“Youth yearns to youth, full blood loves full blood only.”
“I only did my duty to my country when I tried to oppose the criminal folly of Hitler”

Source : "Admiral Canaris - Chief of Intelligence". Book by Ian Colvin, p. 210, 2007.

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