The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds. – Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature. – Paul Valery
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. – Paul Valery
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, theres only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. – Jimmy Carter
Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, hes extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesnt seem comfortable in his skin. – Ron Fournier