#mati

I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#book #communication #hard #i #information

I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#any #anybody #approach #difference #extent

The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved. ↗

— Paul Dirac

#chemistry #completely #complex #difficulty #equations

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. ↗

— Walt Disney

#appreciation #communication #conceive #devised #explain

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management. ↗

— John Doolittle

#basic #been #component #confined #developments

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon) ↗

— Naomi Novik

#dramatic-announcements #revenge #beauty

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. ↗

— David Duke

#affirmative #affirmative action #against #college #discrimination

I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#fbi #got #i #information #look

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically. ↗

— Aaron Eckhart

#dramatically #i #i see #most #movies

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. ↗

— John Edwards

#ceo #company #did #dollars #facts