"It wasn't that the X-1 would kill you, it was the systems in the X-1 that would kill you."

-- Chuck Yeager

“We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.”

Source : "'Penn&Teller: Bullshit' ('Abstinence')". Comedy, Documentary, June 05, 2006.
“It was my father who instilled the 'never say no' attitude I carry around with me today, and who instilled in me a sense of wonder, always taking us on adventures in the car, never telling us the destination.”
“Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
“Here and gone. Thatâ€™s what it is to be human, I thinkâ€”to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.”
“The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.”

Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
“Sometimes the parallels that are brought in can make the play seem less relevant; you can deny a play's application to the universal by making it too specific. Sometimes having a modern context does make things easier to grasp; sometimes, you go, "Why have they got swords?" "Why didn't Juliet just text Romeo? Why did she bother posting a letter? Why was the Milan post service so bad?" It throws up irrelevant questions that don't help.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“It's the ideology, stupid. Unless the long-term decline of moderates and rise of conservatives is reversed during the next two years, the ideological balance of the electorate in 2012 could look a lot like it did this year.”
“Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.”

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