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"The wirless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." »Albert Einstein
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"The past is a guide post, not a hitching post." »L. Thomas Holdcroft
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"The main difference in the speed of recovery between Argentina in post-2001 and Thailand in post-1997 crises is the exports. Fiscal discipline is necessary but not sufficient without export-driven economic growth. Too much debt can result in prolonged stagnation similar to the Japanese lost-decade of 1990s. With inflation risk on the rise, we could see more socioeconomic troubles and political unrest in economies with thin middle class. 2011-2012 will be challenging for many policy makers." »Med Jones
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"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post." »George Bernard Shaw
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." »Albert Einstein
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." »Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio
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"Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the post Office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"Things could always be worse for instance, you could be ugly and work in the post Office." »Adrienne E. Gusoff
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"Actuated by the most glorious cause that mankind ever fought in, I am determined to defend this post to the very last extremity." »Colonel Morgan, In response to the British demand of the surrender of Fort Washington
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"post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing." »Charles Krauthammer
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"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs." »Christopher Hampton
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"Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station." »Joseph Addison
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"I cherish the Franco-German cooperation as one of the most important developments in post-war Europe. But I will not accept is as being so sacrosanct that the rest of us shall simply adapt to what is decided between Paris and Berlin." »Uffe Ellemann-Jensen, President, ELDR 1995-2000, Foreign Minister 1982-1993, Nordic Embassies in Berlin 23 September 2003
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"A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody." »Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
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"“That said, having seen the decreased value of many universities’ endowments, we are seeing and will see more universities enforcing patents. And in a post-eBay world, universities can argue that they are entitled to an injunction.”" »Yar Chaikovsky
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