"Never assume the obvious is true."

-- William Safire

#Truth Quotes #Peer Pressure Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.”
“Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.”
“Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.”
“All the travelin I ever done is going around the coffeepot looking for the handle.”
“Unemployment, foreclosures, bankruptcy - the cure is not more government spending, but helping businesses create jobs.”
“People working on climate change should prepare for catastrophic success.”

Source : "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.
“Black is real sensation, even if it is produced by entire absence of light. The sensation of black is distinctly different from the lack of all sensations.”
“I remember when I first walked into Mayer's cavernous office. You had to walk 50 yards to get to him, and in that time he could really study everything about you.”

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