"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance."

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Barry Commoner

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“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.”
“You don't need a prince to be a princess”
“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”
“The reason why the war ended in Bosnia was not because of amnesty but because a combined Croat-Bosnian offensive defeated the Serbs on the battlefield. Sometimes naÃ¯vetÃ© belongs not to the human rights activists but to the politicians.”
“Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.”
“We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them.”

Source : Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.97, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben - or Al Gore, Paul Krugman, or any other climate-change doomsayer - to put his wealth where his words are. I'll bet $10,000 that the average annual number of Americans killed by tornadoes, floods and hurricanes will fall over the next 20 years. Specifically, I'll bet that the average annual number of Americans killed by these violent weather events from 2011 through 2030 will be lower than it was from 1991 through 2010.”

Source : "More Weather Deaths? Wanna Bet?". www.wsj.com. May 28, 2011.
“All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.”

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