Edward Tufte Quotes
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Fossil fuels are - they're inherently centralized. And you need a lot of infrastructure to get them out, and you need a lot of infrastructure to transport it, as Obama was explaining in front of all that pipe, right? Whereas renewable energy is everywhere.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
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You all had something to do with keeping me employed.
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Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.
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I've had lots of things that didn't work out, like TV shows. You learn a lot through mistakes - I learned that you have to be the captain of your ship. Actually, I own my ship.
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The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.
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Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.
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Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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America's enemy in the Islamic world is not a state we can crush with sanctions or an enemy we can defeat with force of arms. The enemy is a cause, a movement, an idea.
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Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus)
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The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.
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If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
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Luckily because I had a family and children, my priorities changed. I mean, I'm very passionate about my work but I have other interests and other things that balance my life.
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We share one heart, one home, and one glorious destiny.
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I'm not from a retail background, but I am a shopper.
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I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.
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I don't buy diamonds, I don't buy cars, but I enjoy travelling. I'm not a very possessive person as far as things go.
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
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Introverts prefer introversion; we tend to gain energy by reflecting and expend energy when interacting. Extroverts have the opposite preference; they tend to gain energy by interacting and expend energy while reflecting.
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But mainly I learned, in approaching the measurement of new phenomena, not just to consider using existing apparatus but to allow the mind to wander freely and invent new ways of doing the job.
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A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
