"Napoleon: You have written this huge book on the system of the world without once mentioning the author of the universe. Laplace: Sire, I had no need of that hypothesis. Later when told by Napoleon about the incident, Lagrange commented: Ah, but that is a fine hypothesis. It explains so many things."

-- Pierre-Simon Laplace

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“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.”
“Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
“Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.”
“When ya gotta goNow we know what we are here for. We are not here to love fear and serve any old bearded but invisible thunder god. We are here to go.”
“So the divine love is sacrificial love. Love does not mean to have and to own and to possess. It means to be had and to be owned and to be possessed. It is not a circle circumscribed by self, it is arms outstretched to embrace all humanity within its grasp.”
“I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.”

Source : "Howard reasserts right to decide cultural identity". The Age, September 20, 1988.
“National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.”
“The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.”

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