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"was a minority view, but and a few like-minded theorists were able to keep the plate spinning for years. Another Cambridge luminary, Martin Ryle, finally brought it crashing down. An irascible, hardhe…"

"He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realised that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know."

"I do not intend to enter upon the question whether the Americans are in the right or in the wrong. Here all my prejudices are against the Americans; for I am an High Churchman, the son of an High Chur…"

"The basic managerial idea introduced by systems thinking, is that to manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately."

"We did not think that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions he sent to Sinai on May 14 would not have been sufficient to launch an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it."

"How many Americans not only believe, but openly maintain, that fascism is better than democracy, that unthinking obedience is better than action based on individual conscience and thought, that patrio…"

"It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state."

"We see the same lack of critical thinking and inconsistency in our privacy with regard to government spying and Fourth Amendment and search and seizure issues. There are a number of issues where Ameri…"

"Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking."

"“Who you think you are is just that - it is who you think you are. It is who you have been taught to believe that you are. It's a conglomeration of beliefs about yourself, ideas, opinions, judgements,…"

"Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels."

"All my films are somewhat experimental, they are all, each one, taking a certain amount of risk, but there's always the basic assumption that we should be able to appreciate the cinema as much with th…"

"When you get a cut and think, 'I'm going to make a halfway decent film."

"Yes. God makes the world using mathematics, and he has given us minds that can see it. We can discover the laws He used! It is a most beautiful thing to witness and understand! It's prayer. It's more …"

"I've been a self-declared Libertarian since 1971. What was the old saying? That if you weren't a Democrat in college, you didn't have a heart. And if you weren't a Republican in later life, you didn't…"

"I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."

"He thought others were small; that was his greatness."

"Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act. All living thought is a world in preparation; all real act is a thought manifested. The material world exists because an Idea began to play in…"

"And as a matter of fact Rumsfeld, Now that I think back, Without 9/11 you couldn't have a war in Iraq."

"When I think about sex it makes me realise how alone I feel."