"I am a Quantum Engineer, but on Sundays I Have Principles."

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Source : Opening sentence of his "underground colloquium" in March 1983, as quoted by Nicolas Gisin in "Quantum [un]speakables: from Bell to quantum information", p. 199, 2002.

John Stewart Bell

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“You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.”

Source : "Colombian Singer Juanes Is a Savvy Businessman". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 26, 2007.
“The piano is not firewood -- yet.”

Source : Song: Firewood, Album: What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, 2012
“I can't think of a single one of my plays that does not represent a coincidence between an external and an internal event. Something outside of me, outside even my own life, something I read in a newspaper or witness on the street, something I see or hear, fascinates me. I see it for its dramatic potential.”
“To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called â€˜the rupture of planeâ€™ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.”
“One of the problems that Hillary Clinton had, and one of the problems that Democrats still have is people don't really know what we stand for.”
“It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.”
“Whenever I audition for something, if I get excited about the project I'm totally committed to it from that point on. But it can also be a long process, so when I eventually get given the part it's then that I realise that I've actually got to do it and here comes the work!”
“Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' - or else not.”

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