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Wells Quotes - Page 36

A specialist is a barbarian whose ignorance is not well-rounded.

Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

Sophocles (1867). “The Tragedies of Sophocles: A New Trans., with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes and Lyrical Dialogues”, p.89

We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you yank on me.

Robert M. Sapolsky (2007). “A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

"Torture, Drones, and Hollywood: A Former CIA Operative Talks". Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. December 23, 2014.

We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.379

I've always been told I was extremely well-behaved as a kid.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.

Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.106, Penguin