“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Jayant Narlikar's Cosmology
“But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Tom Minchin. Anthony Watts interviewed http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2010/06/anthony-watts-interviewed/, Quadrant magazine, June 30, 2010. <br class="br">2010
Bill Nye (1955) American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, writer, scientist and former mechanical engineer
[NewsBank, D-01, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, brings humor to normally serious field, The Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, March 9, 2005, Bill Buell]
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Fragment on Government http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln2/1:261?rgn=div1;view=fulltext (1 July 1854?) in "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln", ed. Roy P. Basler, Vol. 2, pp. 220-221 <br class="br">1850s <br class="br">Context: The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves - in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The first - that in relation to wrongs - embraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for government.
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
John W. Kingdon (1940) American political scientist
Source: Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies - (Second Edition), Chapter 3, Outside Government, But Not Just Looking In, p. 65
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Interview with Mark Shapiro (2000)