#issues

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#back #bookstores #come #fan #find

A few years after I gave some lectures for the freshmen at Caltech (which were published as the Feynman Lectures on Physics), I received a long letter from a feminist group. I was accused of being anti-women because of two stories: the first was a discussion of the subtleties of velocity, and involved a woman driver being stopped by a cop. There's a discussion about how fast she was going, and I had her raise valid objections to the cop's definitions of velocity. The letter said I was making the women look stupid. The other story they objected to was told by the great astronomer Arthur Eddington, who had just figured out that the stars get their power from burning hydrogen in a nuclear reaction producing helium. He recounted how, on the night after his discovery, he was sitting on a bench with his girlfriend. She said, "Look how pretty the stars shine!" To which he replied, "Yes, and right now, I'm the only man in the world who knows how they shine." He was describing a kind of wonderful loneliness you have when you make a discovery. The letter claimed that I was saying a women is incapable of understanding nuclear reactions. I figured there was no point in trying to answer their accusations in detail, so I wrote a short letter back to them: "Don't bug me, Man! ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#deep-thoughts #humor-inspirational #ignorance #ignoring-issues #incapable-of-interpreted

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues. ↗

— Mike Johanns

#issues #need #sanitary #vigilant

Now that this legislation has passed the House, I look forward to the vote in the Senate that will bring us to Conference, where we can resolve any outstanding issues and make this postal reform reality - for the Postal Service and for all Americans. ↗

— John McHugh

#any #bring #conference #forward #house

Nonetheless, to the extent that terrorists have come into our country or suspected or known terrorists have entered our country across a border, it's been across the Canadian border. There are real issues there. ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#been #border #canadian #come #country

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#caught #circumstances #difficult #difficult circumstances #films

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#any #country #difficult #issues #kind

I've seen how the issues that come across a president's desk are always the hard ones - the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#always #amount #answer #come #data

I don't know of any issues associated with alcohol before flight. ↗

— Ellen Ochoa

#any #associated #before #flight #i

We obviously want to produce things that people want. We are going to continue to do that in an environmentally responsible way, while still being aware of the physical, scientific, and practical issues that we have to deal with. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

#being #continue #deal #environmentally #going