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I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#ago #authority #budgets #business #cut

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#indeed #joke #mankind #world

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#books #floor #furniture #go #i

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#enthusiasm #fear #flags #i #me

Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#dreams #freighted #memories #more #mountains

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. ↗

— James A. Lovell

#happened #make #makes #need #people

Just after World War II, this country led the world in science by every way you could measure it, yet the number of scientists was a tiny proportion of what it is now. ↗

— James Lovelock

#could #country #every #ii #just

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. ↗

— James Lovelock

#companies #disinformation #lot #nuclear #nuclear power

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it. ↗

— James Lovelock

#climate #could #fast #hot #jump

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#incredulity #many #nothing #pleasures #return