Quote by Richard Powers
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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Science
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers

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Imagination
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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work. – Richard Powers

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Technology
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Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole. – John F. Kennedy

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Politics

Once you start saying, Lets talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations, it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda. – Andrew Cuomo

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Politics

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy wont. – Hyman Rickover

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Politics

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. – Ronald Reagan

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Politics

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anything else is…impossible. – Richard Bach

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Theres a rule of thumb in politics. If youre at a point where youre complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, thats probably a sign that youre losing. – Laura Ingraham

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Its hardware that makes a machine fast. Its software that makes a fast machine slow. – Craig Bruce

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Computers