Excited Nuclear State

Famous quotes containing the words excited, nuclear and/or state:

    The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one’s intellect simply refuses to take seriously—is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
    George Orwell (1903–1950)

    American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
    Camille Paglia (b. 1947)

    Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself!
    Jean Racine (1639–1699)