"part of the problem with a war on poverty today is that many Americans have decided that being poor is a character defect, not an economic condition."

-- Anna Quindlen

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“You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.”
“The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.”
“Iâ€™m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance”
“It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.”

Source : "Nobel Prize in Physics". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. March 18, 1991.
“I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.”
“No believer lives a spiritually isolated life.”
“Non-criminal sexual harassmentÂ on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.”
“Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.”

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