#de

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. ↗

#anybody #book #first #first kiss #great

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

#nuclear-bomb #science #wwii #death

He appeared every night, like myself, at about nine o'clock, in the office of Mr. Tyler, to learn the news brought in the night Associated Press report. He knew me from the Bull Run campaign as a correspondent of the press. ↗

— Henry Villard

#appeared #associated #brought #bull #campaign

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#death #death penalty #desire #driving #father

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#because #lender #nature #ninety #percent

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#declaration #failed #fails #government #indeed

When you try to communicate too many ideas, sometimes you wind up communicating nothing. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#communicating #ideas #many #nothing #sometimes

Nothing is more difficult than removing a negative attitude. ↗

— Shailesh Bhokare

#inspirational-quotes #philosophy-of-life #attitude

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ↗

— Marie Curie

#curious #ideas #less #more #people

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child. ↗