None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots. – Thurgood Marshall
Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality. – Friedrich Durrenmatt
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty –excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable –should persist after the beauty was gone. – Mary Arnim
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers. – Simon Mainwaring