"How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails."

-- Vernor Vinge

#Viewpoints Quotes #Quails Quotes

“Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume but do not produce.”

Source : Vilfredo Pareto (1971). “Manual of political economy”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
“Im sick and tired of politicians beating up on the IRS. We have the best and fairest tax-collection system in the world.”
“"Stay" is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
“I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.”
“The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.”
“I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.”

Source : "New life for David Duval". Interview with Bob Verdi, www.espn.co.uk. July 18, 2006.
“First law: The pesticide paradox. Every method you use to prevent or find bugs leaves a residue of subtler bugs against which those methods are ineffective.”
“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.”

Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.106

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