“There is no battle or engagement with any institution, company or government; it is always an engagement of ideas.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.”
“Help yourself before you help others.”
“Whatever happens right now, it has to happen.”
“We —I mean to say we mammals — who in general do not have problems about obtaining water, have learned to wedge it into the urea molecule, which is soluble in water, and as urea we free ourselves of it; other animals, for whom water is precious (or it was for their distant progenitors), have made the ingenious invention of packaging their nitrogen in the form of uric acid, which is insoluble in water, and of eliminating it as a solid, with no necessity of having recourse to water as a vehicle. In an analogous fashion one thinks today of eliminating urban garbage by pressing it into blocks, which can be carried to the dumps or buried inexpensively.”
Source: The periodic table
“I am not pointing fingers, but rather pointing at the facts, as the facts point fingers regardless.”
“...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.”
Source: The Limits of Economics
“The third story is told in a long and detailed letter written to a friend by Sergeant Benjamin Katz, an orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corps. … This letter is completely different from the other accounts, emotional, shocking, heartbreaking, funny and unforgettable.”
Source: EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
“Facts don’t require our personal approval for them to be facts.”
Source: The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement (Spiral-Bound) [Spiral-bound] Sharon McMahon
“Nice things don't happen in story books. Or when they do happen, something bad happens next. Because otherwise the story would be
boring, and no one would read it.”
Source: The Cruel Prince