"Thoughtful people are concerned with the future because that is the only area of experience about which anything can be done. We cannot change the past, and the present is gone as soon as it is reported, but the future is that in which we can make a difference."

-- D. Elton Trueblood

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“Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.”
“The feel of the experience is the important thing, not the ability to verbalize or analyze it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.”
“So have your wits about you, and do what you can and dig in, because it might not last.”

Source : "'Ethel' review: Extraordinary Kennedy" by David Wiegand, www.sfgate.com. October 15, 2012.
“Everybody's got a different circle of competence. The important thing is not how big the circle is. The important thing is staying inside the circle.”
“The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.”
“coincident with the explosive growth of research, the art of writing science suffered a grave setback, and the stultifying convention descended that the best scientific prose should sound like a non-human author addressing a mechanical reader. ... We injure ourselves when we fail to make our discipline as clear and vibrant as we can to students - prospective scientists - and to the public who pay the taxes.”

Source : N. David Mermin (1990). “Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age”, p.12, Cambridge University Press
“With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.”

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