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Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#circumstances #detected #dim #effect #equipment

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#around #chaos #effects #fluctuations #happen

Further-more, partisan attachments powerfully shape political perceptions, beliefs and values, and incumbents enjoy advantages well beyond the way in which their districts are configured. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#attachments #beliefs #beyond #districts #enjoy

In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#been #competitive #dozen #given #house

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#adverse #adverse conditions #against #aggression #conditions

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#every #human #human being #moderate #reasonable

An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#art #characterizes #creates #creativeness #critical

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#amount #certain #democracy #human #implies

Bill Bradley is a serious politician and if Al Gore stumbles seriously, then Bradley is there to take advantage of that. ↗

— Tom Mann

#al #al gore #bill #bradley #gore