"The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment."

-- Norbert Wiener

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“It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.”
“All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people”
“Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'”
“The significance of a fact is relative to [the general body of scientific] knowledge. To say that a fact is significant in science, is to say that it helps to establish or refute some general law; for science, though it starts from observation of the particular, is not concerned essentially with the particular, but with the general. A fact, in science, is not a mere fact, but an instance. In this the scientist differs from the artist, who, if he deigns to notice facts at all, is likely to notice them in all their particularity.”
“The best thing that's ever happened to me is my daughter. To be a Mom is the best thing in the world. You know, that's all I really wanted to do after I had finished doing films.”
“Moment I stop havin fun wit it, I'll be done wit it.”
“I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know thats not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.”

Source : "Robert Gibbs Clarifies “Professional Left” Criticism, Calls Initial Comments Inartful" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 10, 2010.
“As we trust God to give us wisdom for today's decisions, He will lead us a step at a time into what He wants us to be doing in the future.”

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