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What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition. ↗

— David Bohm

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President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several times, with the, with a lot of his people hoping that it would lead to a confrontation and claiming that it had. And could have resulted in the lost of many lives in the course of it. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

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One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

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The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way. ↗

— John Elway

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But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence. ↗

— David Bohm

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So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction. ↗

— David Bohm

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Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating. ↗

— Brian Boitano

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Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. ↗

— Niels Bohr

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