Quotes
Authors
Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

"Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind: they have convinced us that mass homogeneity is more essential for the betterment of society than is individual initiative, and they have adorned this dubious assumption with assurances that by leveling all distinctions between human beings, collective peace and unity will result as a matter of course, just as water runs downhill or the cart follows the ox."

-- Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

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“The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.”
“When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.”

Source : "From Bond To Blomkvist: Daniel Craig's Next Big Role". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 20, 2011.
“Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.”
“No one has taken my heart in their hand. I haven't given it... I have lent myself, rented myself out, but never given myself.”
“With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.”
“Most of my scientific work has been basic research. There were no immediate uses for my discoveries, but today the radioisotopes are the workhorses of nuclear medicine, an isotope of plutonium is a major energy source in the space program, and the element americium is critical to the smoke detectors in every house in the country.”
“Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.”
“I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.”

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