"And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now."

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Source : Ben Goldacre (2008). “Bad Science”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

Ben Goldacre

#Book Quotes #Might Quotes #Ends Quotes

“People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else.”
“You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.”

Source : Interview with Lucy Ward, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2005.
“I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.”
“Justice will be served And the battle will rage This big dog will fight When you rattle his cage And you'll be sorry that you messed with The U.S. of A. 'Cause we'll put a boot in your *ss It's the American way”
“For reforms ameliorate the situation of the working class, they lighten the weight of the chains labour is burdened with by capitalism, but they are not sufficient to crush capitalism and to emancipate the workers from their tyranny.”
“A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.”

Source : Ernest Shackleton (2015). “South”, p.78, Sheba Blake Publishing
“There is a loving way with words and an unloving way. And it is only with the loving way that the simplicity of language becomes beautiful.”
“I just . . . knew, the way you know how to breathe or to pull your hand back from a hot stove.”

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