Famous Newspaper Editor Quotes & Sayings

And when we diverge, it will be impossible for the expendables and the ship's computers on all the ships to know which version of Ram Odin to obey," said Ram. "Therefore I order you and all the other expendables to immediately kill every copy of Ram except me."
"I'm so sorry," said the expendable. "One of the versions of Ram Odin did not include the word 'immediately,' and therefore his order was complete a fraction of a second before all the others. He is the real Ram Odin."
Ram gave a little half smile. "How ironic. By specifying that you should act at once-"
The expendable reached out with both hands, gave Ram's head a twist, and broke his neck. The sentence remained unfinished, but that did not matter, since the person saying it was not the real Ram Odin. — Orson Scott Card

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. — Dean Koontz

Be Happy and Positive all will come Good in Time. — Jan Jansen

Schools themselves aren't creating the opportunity gap: the gap is already large by the time children enter kindergarten and does not grow as children progress through school. The gaps in cognitive achievement by level of maternal education that we observe at age 18-powerful predictors of who goes to college and who does not - are mostly present at age 6when children enter school. Schooling plays only a minor role in alleviating or creating test score gaps. — Robert D. Putnam

In our social world we have only a thin layer of topsoil-tolerance-for people and cultures that are different from our own. When times get hard, there is nothing left to
nourish us, and we snarl over limited profits or limited resources. It seems clear that the work of spiritual regeneration has to begin now.
These — Gary Holthaus

Those who say that climate change doesn't exist are being understood as the flat-earthers that they are, as the people who deny the link between smoking and cancer, as the people who denied the link between HIV and AIDS. — Nicholas Stern

One of my favorite things to do is formulate powers for a character, then come up with their corresponding weaknesses and liabilities. And I delight in world-building: melding the supernatural with the natural, then tweaking and polishing until it feels organic. — Kresley Cole

Cardinal Giovanni still did not like delicate matters; they were usually painful. — Irving Stone