"Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical triumphs is an obvious lack of efficiency in using scientific achievements for economic needs... many Soviet household appliances are of poor quality."

-- Mikhail Gorbachev

#War Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Quality Quotes

“For it must be very lonely being dead.”

Source : Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.”
“You can delay but you can't deny.”
“Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself”
“We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.”

Source : Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR (2017). “Arise from Darkness: What to Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense”, p.76, Ignatius Press
“Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.”

Source : Thomas Adams (1862). “The works: Being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses. With memoir by Joseph Angus”, p.3
“I would never want to take away the option of sex work from someone, but I would want to create more options so that everyone can make the decision whether they want to do sex work or they don't want to do sex work, and that people who do sex work can do it safely.”
“The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.”

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