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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, o

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

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I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science. – Richard Powers

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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

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design
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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. – Richard Powers

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The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely. – Lyman Bryson

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I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether its subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves. – Mira Nair

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Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because weve been ignorant of their value. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. – Hillary Clinton

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Absolute identity with ones cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership. – Woodrow Wilson

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Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police. – Theresa May

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Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs. – Jerry Costello

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