"I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy."

-- John Bolton

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“We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.”

Source : "Life beyond Earth seems 'inevitable', US planetary scientist says", www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2014.
“Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.”

Source : Woody Herman, Stuart Troup (1990). “The Woodchopper's Ball: The Autobiography of Woody Herman”, New York : E.P. Dutton
“CAPM also makes use of what is called a "definitional identity." This is something that is automatically true, simply because of the way things have been defined.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 2, Estimating Expected Return with the Theories of Modern Finance, p. 16, 1999.
“We all have angels guiding us...They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands...What will bring their help? Asking. Giving thanks.”
“Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.”

Source : Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.26, New Directions Publishing
“What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.”
“All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.”
“The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.”

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