"This summer I have discovered something totally useless."

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Source : "The Hunt for the Higgs Boson". Science Scotland, issue no. 3, www.sciencescotland.org. Winter 2004.

#Summer Quotes #Useless Quotes

“The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.”

Source : Rosalyn Drexler (1967). “The Line of Least Existence, and Other Plays: With an Introd. by Richard Gilman”
“All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its resources of imagination or understanding. Any uncultured cretin can close his eyes and try to reduce the issues down to linear simplisms and say, "I am doubting, I am proving my magisterial or sovereign control over my own mind." Doubt is a useful and significant test of one's critical powers, but by itself it bears little if any significant cultural charge of enlightenment or satori; indeed it is the very opposite kind of thing.”
“When I go to the movies, I like romance, comedy, and thrillers. I hate gore.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm never tired of winning, and I'm never tired of skiing.”
“I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.”
“Something deep in my character allows me to take the hits and get on with trying to win.”
“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”
“We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.”

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