The World Motivation
It's not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we're in a transition to a world economy, it's still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.
“It's not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we're in a transition to a world economy, it's still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.”
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“It's not unreasonable to imagine that, at least as we're in a transition to a world economy, it's still necessary now to pay attention to how our country is doing economically in comparison with other countries.”
“A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in photons and electrons. Can you imagine anything so silly?' They'll have a good laugh, because by then there will be newer better fantasies... And meanwhile, you feel the way the boat moves? That's the sea. That's real. You smell the salt in the air? You feel the sunlight on your skin? That's all real. Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.”
“Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.”
“I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.”
“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.”
“I'm somebody who has to physically experience an environment in order to know it as well as I would like to know it. I recognize this is impressionistic, not scientific. People say, 'You sound like Walt Whitman.' Well, I'll take that comparison.”
“I find myself enjoying a deeper love than I ever imagined was possible in the form of my daughter and certainly in the union with my wife. It makes everything else, including work, which is one of the things I'm most passionate about, pale by comparison.”
“There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.”
“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”
“That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.”
“In comparison to an able-bodied person, it's incredible, the amount of extra resistance I have, in comparison to an able body.”