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Quote Left The Republican leadership in the House is more ideologically homogenous than parties have been in a century. You don't find great variation in policy positions. Quote Right
Quote Left I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita. Quote Right
Quote Left In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. Quote Right
Quote Left There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago. Quote Right
Quote Left If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds. Quote Right
Quote Left Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. Quote Right
Quote Left Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have al... Quote Right
Quote Left As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress. Quote Right
Quote Left Today's city is the most vulnerable social structure ever conceived by man. Quote Right
Quote Left The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. Quote Right
Quote Left Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. Quote Right
Quote Left Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. Quote Right
Quote Left The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it. Quote Right
Quote Left Now we are all sons of bitches. Quote Right
Quote Left The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. Quote Right

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