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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

#confrontation #could #course #destroyers #gulf

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

#constant #continuous #create #creates #environment

I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#after #because #consider #done #everything

But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us. ↗

— David Bohm

#controls #decide #each #false #gives

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined. ↗

— David Bohm

#defined #mechanics #movement #quantum #quantum mechanics

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. ↗

— David Bohm

#change #common #constant #development #interacting

Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn't notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates. ↗

— David Bohm

#constantly #creates #creating #makes #more

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#concerns #find #how #nature #out

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#around #context #deliberately #i #i am

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. ↗

— Rahm Emanuel

#country #days #deal #delano #economic