"If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that."

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Source : "Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2013.

Peter Higgs

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“The Marines estimate that roughly a hundred or 200 women will be interested in going into these jobs - roughly 2 percent of those jobs. Still, this is historic. It's a biggest cultural change in the military maybe ever, probably bigger than integrating the force back in 1948 when African-Americans were no longer segregated in separate units.”
“To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.”
“It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or the other becomes a habit of life.”
“I hope they remember the good stuff, when I was a baby, a toddler, when they still had hopes and dreams for their little girl, their miracle child. In truth they were good to me. They were only doing what they knew how to do; what they thought was best.”
“I don't even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that's really douchey. I think of myself as just like a dance commander.”
“Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.”
“Fortunately, many people also enjoy a stand-alone as a sample of something new, like trying the special at a favourite restaurant one night instead of going for the usual.”
“Everything you want to know about a fighter is in his eyes. The look in his eyes tells the truth.”

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