"Before I joined the project most of the English people with whom I had made personal contacts were left wing and affected to some degree or other by the same kind of philosophy."

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Klaus Fuchs

#Philosophy Quotes #Wings Quotes #People Quotes

“You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.”

Source : ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. November 17, 2009.
“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

Source : "Best: Decline of the golden boy". news.bbc.co.uk. June 14, 2005.
“I'm so grounded, it's sad.”
“If I make a mistake, Iâ€™m going to make a mistake aggressively and Iâ€™m going to make it quickly. I donâ€™t believe in sleeping on a decision.”
“Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.”
“Western progress (from one damned thing to another) seems to be essentially the MO of nowhere fast. But, on the other hand, the don't-set-foot-outside-your-own-village/cave ideal or injunction that you find in Buddhism and even in the Daoism of which I'm fonder, seems . . . defeatist. And more than that, it is in contradiction to what nature actually does. Somewhere, somehow, I feel as if these two opposing principles have to be reconciled.”
“When it comes to peace, we need to facilitate peace-makers' personal engagement and their genuine desire to bridge the gap between advocacy knowledge and skills necessary to differentiate between theory and practice in the field of conflict management.”

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