"So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress."

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Source : "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview With Rick Henderson, William “Chip” Mellor, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

Malcolm Wallop

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“I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.”
“First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.”

Source : Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “Nicholas Copernicus on the revolutions”
“What we did is we went on those parabolic flights, which people like to call the vomit comet. Basically, the plane throws you up into the air and catches you. And for about 30 seconds, you feel like there's no gravity. So what we did was we did a series of eight of those in a row. And every time we landed, we stayed perfectly still for the five minutes in between while the plane is setting up so that we could just continue the routine where we had left off. So the final video you see is all one take. And we seem to be weightless the entire time.”

Source : "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.
“In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon”
“What we mean by Tao is the way or course of Nature. This way has nothing good or bad, it is a mere flowing of things following the development and decline attributes of the moment.”
“Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.”
“The Muslim community should not be treated as a problematic community, but treated as a community that is willing to play its role in the mainstream.”

Source : "Blair confronts 'evil ideology'". www.cnn.com. July 20, 2005.
“Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.”

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