"For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe."

-- Tim O'Brien

#Thinking Quotes #Squares Quotes #Roots Quotes

“The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.”

Source : "World Peace and the Developing Countries" Joseph Rotblat, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, (p. 126), 1986.
“I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.”
“People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.”
“Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.”
“I think Americans today look at the moon and think of it like apple pie or Coca-Cola. It's American. We planted our flag there. We see ourselves in it and don't like the idea of anyone else taking over the moon.”
“Anyone who takes his faith seriously and speaks in behalf of Christ and His kingdom will be accused of fanaticism at some point.”
“Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.”
“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”

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