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We were looking at ourselves as a store rather than a brand. When you do that, you draw thick, heavy lines around your freedom.


Robert J. Fisher

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ROBERT J. MORRISSETTE Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At wh...
J. ROBERT MOSKIN The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scient...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for th...
ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN I think there's always been, to some degree, a misunderstanding about what science fiction is al...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Once we no longer have the intellectual upper hand, then we quite literally, by definition, cannot o...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Raising property taxes in Alabama is never going to happen. The people are never going to vote for t...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY A writer needs to write, period. He or she can't wait for the muse, shouldn't need peace and...
ROBERT J. SAWYER The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics is the world's greatest pure physics thinktank, ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER We absolutely do some of the best science in the world in Canada, across a broad spectrum of discipl...
ROBERT J. SAWYER All the stories we tell ourselves are wrong.
J. ROBERT LENNON In order to get people to love you, you've got to get some people to hate you
ROBERT J. BRAATHE I have no intentions of resigning.
ROBERT J. BENTLEY George Orwell's science-fiction classic 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' wasn't a failure beca...
ROBERT J. SAWYER If you like 'The Nature of Things,' or if you like 'Quirks and Quarks' you'll ce...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I think that a lot of people in all walks of life have the impression, of course, that, 'I speci...
ROBERT J. SHILLER A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the ...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'...
ROBERT J. SAWYER I have to uphold not only the constitution of Alabama, but I swore to uphold the Constitution of the...
ROBERT J. BENTLEY In addition to psychopaths, 'Quantum Night' is also a novel about literally thoughtless peop...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Critics of 'economic sciences' sometimes refer to the development of a 'pseudoscience...
ROBERT J. SHILLER A short story is the shortest distance between two points; a novel is the scenic route.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Print science fiction writers often do consulting for government bodies.
ROBERT J. SAWYER The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to...
ROBERT J. ALLISON To the confusion of our enemies.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER In battle, in forest, at the precipice in the mountains,
On the dark great sea, in the midst of...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the firs...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Naturally, one does not normally discuss plans to commit murder with the intended victim.
ROBERT J. SAWYER Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He ta...
HELEN FISHER The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.
IRVING FISHER If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.
CARRIE FISHER I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in dif...
CARRIE FISHER Everything is negotiable. Whether or not the negotiation is easy is another thing.
CARRIE FISHER I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still survivin...
CARRIE FISHER I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
CARRIE FISHER I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I l...
CARRIE FISHER