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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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Science
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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery. – Richard Powers

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Science
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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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Living in Washington, you cant take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they dont believe because they get paid to. – Tucker Carlson

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In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. – Jesse Jackson

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Politics

For too long, we have focused on our differences – in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs – rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together. – Bob Riley

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I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. – A. N. Wilson

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We love peace, but not peace at any price. – Douglas William Jerrold

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I believe if we introduced the Lords Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it. – Henry Wilson

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The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just. – John F. Kennedy

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Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts. – Francis Bacon

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