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“...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”Margaret AtwoodHope
“If I pick up a book with vampires on the cover, I want there to be vampires. If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling.”
“There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why.”Jim HarrisonHarvard
“The Harvard Step Test really makes your heart rate go down. I do that a few times a day and a high number of squats with other stretching and weight routines.”Bob BacklundHarvard
“Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.”Margaret AtwoodAbsolute
“Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see.”Margaret AtwoodActually
“What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.”David FahrentholdHarvard
“As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there.”Niall FergusonHarvard