"I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment."

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Source : William Golding (2013). “To the Ends of the Earth”, p.414, Faber & Faber

William Golding

#Passionate Quotes #Ease Quotes #Opinion Quotes

“I always wanted to play against the best.”
“Some jobs are so dirty you can only send in someone who has the finely honed hatred of liberals acquired at elite universities to do them.”
“Youâ€™re walking down lifeâ€™s road, societyâ€™s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you canâ€™t get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.”
“A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.”

Source : "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.
“I'm less interested in what people think think and more interested in how they came to think it and how they maintain it as valid.”
“Since the 1940s, we've been saying there are no differences, we [humans] are all identical. We're going to know at year end if that is true.”
“Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.”
“I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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