Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:
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She was mostly immensely relieved to think that virtually everything that anybody had ever told her was wrong.
jbz
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The President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.
Michael Downey 🧢
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Still true.
Michael Bacon
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"Come on," he droned, "I've been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't."
Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:
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A mistake in the operating room can threaten the life of one patient; a mistake in statistical analysis or interpretation can lead to hundreds of early deaths. So it is odd that, while we allow a doctor to conduct surgery only after years of training, we give SPSS to almost anyone.
-- Andrew Vickers (Surgeon)
Heidi Li Feldman
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Strypey
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"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price,
and the longer the ignorance is persisted in,
the higher and more terrible
becomes the price that must be paid."
~ 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley.
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Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending to be outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand what was going on, and really being genuinely stupid.
STOP OCCUPATION 🍉 S. Costa
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“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
― Naomi Shulman
Nemoudeis
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Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard. But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought.
- Terry Pratchett - Guards, Guards.
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