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The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation. — John Mortimer Smith
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change... — Hans Hartung
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent what is actually… — Freydoon Rassouli
'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes… — Andrea O'Reilly
I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and… — Ingemar Stenmark
Terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took… — Rocco Galati
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field… — Robert Koch
We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a… — Friedrich August von Hayek
What is so bad about big government? My indictment of big government is that it is bad because it attacks liberty, prosperity, progress, harmony, and… — George Leef
It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means… — George Miller Sternberg
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and… — Maurice Wilkins
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides. — Warren E. Burger
The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly… — Christine de Pizan
Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men… — Ambrose
The doctor is the servant and the interpreter of nature. Whatever he thinks or does, if he follows not in nature's footsteps he will never… — Giorgio Baglivi
I do not think that obsession is funny or that not being able to stop one's intensity is funny. — Jim Dine
Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of… — Hilla von Rebay
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these… — Georg Baselitz
It's a very Aboriginal thing to do, to give younger people greater responsibilities within the community as they become able to take those responsibilities on.… — Jackie Huggins

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