"The problems of financing the universities and their intellectual freedom, threatened by political and bureaucratic interference, are problems which are invariant under the ism transformations: socialism, communism, capitalism, or any other ism or ology."

-- Serge Lang

#Political Quotes #Intellectual Quotes #Isms Quotes

“When you look at the things people are really fed up with, like the collapse of the pension system, like the failure to get money to the frontline of the health service, Gordon Brown is more responsible for that than any other politician including Tony Blair”
“People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.”

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“I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.”
“So if I believe in God, and I do, itâ€™s because I think Iâ€™m God,”
“Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.”
“It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.”
“It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.”
“Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane”

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