"The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear."

-- A. Hunter Dupree

#Hard Work Quotes #Government Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I never paid attention to Michael Jackson, but when he died, it was like an explosion in some strange way. This intensity was released, something really powerful. But how can I say that? I also like to keep a hidden force behind my work.”
“How could these people in the public eye not be afraid of me, but my whole town was?”
“Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals”
“I'm not a vampire but I feel like one”
“Social media's currency is the single photograph. Whereas, every time I look at a photograph, I look at twenty or thirty photographs. I'm looking for a narrative. And that's a different kind of construct. If you're a poet and you put a line from your poem online, "The trees bending over gracefully," or something, you can get a tick. But that has nothing to do with your longer poem.”

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“Rule number one: Why is it that the one time a cute guy talks to you, you have a friend who's in crisis?”
“Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.”
“It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.”

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