"[...] [E]very citizen has to avoid any activities and speeches that harm the image of the country and interests of the people."

-- Thein Sein

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.”
“I wish no living thing to suffer pain.”
“People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.”

Source : "A Space to Call Her Own". Interview with Paula Lipp, www.graduatingengineer.com. September 29, 1999.
“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”
“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).”
“It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.”
“A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.”
“My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.”

Source : S.G. Browne (2009). “Breathers: A Zombie's Lament”, p.17, Three Rivers Press

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