Curiosity demands that we ask questions, that we try to put things together and try to understand this multitude of aspects as perhaps resulting from the actions of a relatively small number of elemental things and forces acting in an infinite variety of combination.
--Richard Feynman
Luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity.
--Coco Chanel
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
That's what Tolstoy meant in War and Peace when he talked about the unknown "x," that spirit that enables people to do things that just aren't reasonable to others.
--Bernard Rapoport
The Word for World is Forest does what serious science fiction does best. It shows us our own world, made strange and familiar; makes us feel the beauty and mystery of this totally extraordinary (one of a kind, you know) planet. And rails against abuses, not in polemic speeches, but though the focused lens of a simple, tragic drama. It's a minor masterpiece.
--Gwyneth Jones on Ursula K. Le Guin (from 80! Memories & Reflections on Ursula K. Le Guin)
If you break the little promises you'll break the big ones. That's what you said.
--Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I am a trichotomist. By that I mean, when I'm in business, I'm a predator and, I hope, a civilized one; when I'm charitable, I'm philanthropic; but when I'm in politics, I'm idealistic.
--Bernard Rapoport
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