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What I try to do in the book is to trace the chain of relationships running from elementary particles, fundamental building blocks of matter everywhere in the universe, such as quarks, all the way to complex entities, and in particular complex adaptive system like jaguars. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#blocks #book #building #building blocks #chain

I beg Osama to stop warring. He is a Muslim, and Islam means peace. Nobody wins in a war... I wish I were tapped in the problem about Iraq. I knew Saddam enough that I could have talked him into surrendering. But it's too late. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beg #could #enough #him #i

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record. ↗

— Roger Maris

#damn #great #great man #i #man

Americans seem sometimes to believe that if you are a thinker you must be a frowning bore, because thinking is so damn serious. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#believe #bore #damn #must #seem

I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities? ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#assimilated #develop #feel #fundamental #get

We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.' ↗

— Susana Martinez

#businesses #car #chuck #damned #families

I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentally good - as long as you're not being bad to people - people give you a lot of room to be yourself, because being yourself is being honest. And that's what people want to see. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#be yourself #because #been #beginning #being

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#change #change the world #ends #exist #fundamentally

Local commerce, without question, will be one of the fundamental use cases enabled by mobile devices over the next several years. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#commerce #devices #enabled #fundamental #local

In all our associations; in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in, and consequently is derived from, the people. ↗

— George Mason

#associations #consequently #derived #fundamental #let us