"We learned the value of research in World War II."

-- Amar Bose

#War Quotes #History Quotes #Research Quotes

“The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.”
“As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well -- a trick I had learned from my father.”
“A lot of the artists that are coming out right now are sticking to the formula of guns, drugs, money, all that other stuff. I'm not from the 'hood, I've never been arrested, I never shot anybody, I never sold drugs,”
“Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.”
“There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.”
“Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.”
“Peace without justice is tyranny”

Source : William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”
“Anytime that knowledge and a version of the truth are considered to be absolute, fundamentalism is the result, whether the arena is Christianity, Islam, Judaism, or any other religious faith, as well as atheism, conservative or liberal political views, even evolution or intelligent design. Anytime our minds are closed and there is no room for dissent, we are on a slippery slope towards stagnation.”

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