Jangala Book Quotes & Sayings

I've got two places I like to be. Portugal is one. — Cliff Richard

If You Cannot Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything! — Jack Valenti

There is no "I" for a person, for a beehive, for a corporation, for an animal, for a nation, for any living thing. The "I" of a vivisystem is a ghost, an ephemeral shroud. — Kevin Kelly

Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That's careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted ... But I recognize the fact that we have this ridiculous system of tenure, that the whole thrust of academia is one that values education, in my opinion, in inverse ratio to its usefulness - and what you write in inverse relationship to its understandability. [ ... ] Academics are forced to write in language no one can understand so that they get tenure. They have to say 'discourse', not 'talk'. Knowledge that is not accessible is not helpful. — Gloria Steinem

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects. — Joshua Lederberg

I am not saying, of course, that most tramps are ideal characters; I am only saying that they are ordinary human beings, and that if they are worse than other people it is the result and not the cause of their way of life. — George Orwell

How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn't want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought. — Edward Feser

Men are brilliantly stupid. — C.L.Stone

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War. — Charles Inglis

I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look. — Margaret Thatcher

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey. — Drew Barrymore

If you give up at the first rejection or the first bad review, you will never make it in publishing. — Jane Yolen

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life. — Kami Garcia

The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean. — Richard P. Feynman