"In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!"

-- John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher

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“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.”

Source : Interview with Donald J. Albers, published in Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson "Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews", 1985.
“We have to take personal responsibility. The government didn't do its job when the institutions needed to be held accountable. If you see something's wrong, you can't just turn the other way. The regulatory system was totally rotten from top to bottom.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because ever since I was a teen I had read feminist writers like Dworkin and Mackinnon and the way they wrote about sex work had an enormous impact on me. Was it really as horrible as they said?”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.”
“Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.”
“I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.”
“Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.”

Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “A Mortal Antipathy”, p.246, Reprint Services Corporation
“Hello and good-bye are not as simple as everyone thinks.”

Source : Cecil Castellucci (2011). “First Day on Earth”, p.71, Scholastic Inc.

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