“I eagerly await more complex concentricity in our Canadian coinage.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“I would not say no to a tortoise, I said.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“We drove out to Oregon City where the streets are all named after presidents in the order they were elected, so you can't get lost if you are American and you know your presidents.”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“I had to pretend you didn't exist. That's how much it hurt
She was still thinking if your safety p. 361”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
“She was still thinking of your safety p. 362”
― Jessica Grant, quote from Come, Thou Tortoise
Jessica Grant
Born place: in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Born date January 1, 1972
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“They shared a long silence. “What do we do, Father?” “We have faith, Pino. We have faith and continue to do what is right.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, quote from Beneath a Scarlet Sky
“Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in the Gulags. Yet, after so much slaughter, they were still believers.”
― Simon Sebag Montefiore, quote from Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
“There are some things that must be done quickly or not at all. If someone asks you if you love them you cannot hesitate. There are some paths that must be taken at speed.”
― Mark Lawrence, quote from Red Sister
“The result is a complete fiasco. Our simple estimate of what the vacuum energy should be comes out to about 10105 joules per cubic centimeter. That’s a lot of vacuum energy. What we actually observe is about 10-15 joules per cubic centimeter. So our estimate is larger than the experimental value by a factor of 10120—a 1 followed by 120 zeroes. Not something we can attribute to experimental error. This has been called the biggest disagreement between theoretical expectation and experimental reality in all of science.”
― Sean Carroll, quote from From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time
“As evidence, he dug up those flimsy charges the army and FBI had investigated ten years before: that Oppenheimer was secretly a Communist and maybe even a Soviet spy. Strauss devised a plan for taking Oppenheimer down. He’d have the AEC strip Oppenheimer of his security clearance. Without this clearance, Oppenheimer would no longer be allowed to see secret information on the latest atomic weapons research. He couldn’t advise the government, because he wouldn’t know what was going on. Oppenheimer had two options: demand a hearing, or simply walk away. He knew by now that nothing he did or said could stop the arms race. But there was a principle involved—he couldn’t let the charges against him go unchallenged. “This course of action,” he told Strauss, “would mean that I accept and concur in the view that I am not fit to serve this government that I have now served for some twelve years. This I cannot do.” Oppenheimer got his hearing, but it was bogus from the start. Strauss personally picked the panel of judges. The FBI tapped Oppenheimer’s phones and listened in on conversations between him and his attorney. This illegally gathered information was used against Oppenheimer in court.”
― Steve Sheinkin, quote from Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
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