"Where would we be without science? Sure, those boffins may have come up with occasionally handy items such as life-saving medicine, air travel and the internet, but science is also guilty of some terrible things, like eugenics and Jordan's breasts."

-- Ian O'Doherty

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“I don't know about timeless. I actually think most of what I do is completely modern, but universally modern. Who decides what timeless even means? Are the things that we consider timeless now going to, in fact, be considered timeless in 300 years? Probably not.”
“The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.”
“I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.”
“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”

Source : Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
“ID cards do not tell the police who is about to commit a suicide bombing.”
“We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.”
“Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.”

Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
“If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.”

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