"On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe."

-- Tom Wolfe

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“If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe.”

Source : Hugh Ross (1989). “The Fingerprint of God: Recent Scientific Discoveries Reveal the Unmistakable Identity of the Creat”, p.82, BookBaby
“My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.”
“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do something you don't necessarily want to do, to get a result you would really like to have.”
“I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.”
“A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still”
“No man has ever been born a Negro hater, a Jew hater, or any other kind of hater. Nature refuses to be involved in such suicidal practices.”
“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.”
“When the road you're on begins to crumble, forge ahead - better it crumble behind you than ahead of you.”

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