Fiscalised Quotes & Sayings

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants. — Martin Lewis Perl

I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national lab, but by the character of our decisions. The Department of Energy serves the country as a Department of Science, a Department of Innovation, and a Department of Nuclear Security. — Steven Chu

I never heard a wood thrush until I was a grown man, though I must have been surrounded by them every spring.
Each year I discover new sights and sounds to teach me how blind and deaf I must still be. — Louis J. Halle

I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be. — Dita Von Teese

The public must suffer untold pangs from the stiffness, the deliberate stifling of emotion, on the part of many British actors. — Ivor Novello

After reading a paper by a young theoretical scientist, Pauli, shaking his head sadly, commented:
That is not even wrong. — Wolfgang Pauli

Choices, the greatest power we have, Choices, the path which is destiny, Choices, the result which is you ... — Joshua Fernandez

The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be "free" because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. — Julian Assange

When something bad happens to us, especially when we are young, our brains will sometimes protect us from it until we are strong enough to deal with the issue. It's not uncommon for people to completely black out an experience for years and revisit it only when they feel safe enough to face it. — Gwen Hayes

Europe will get a stable and prosperous Turkey. — Olli Rehn

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. — Rudyard Kipling