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Even the weather page is in a state of moral decay. What?s wrong with red, white and blue, USA Today? This rainbow weather map is… — Stephen Colbert
Have the daring to stop doing the things you really don't want to do. Can you see them? Look closely. Can you observe the many… — Vernon Howard
The play account rule is that it must be spent every month. That's right! Each month you have to blow all the money in that… — T. Harv Eker
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right… — Walter E. Williams
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of… — Richard P. Feynman
One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40… — Al Gore
Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary… — Oswald Avery
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and… — George Wald
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… — Werner Heisenberg
Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so… — Paul Dirac
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
Twelve Priceless Qualities of Success: 1. The value of time. 2. The success of perseverance. 3. The pleasure of working. 4. The dignity of simplicity.… — Marshall Field
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it… — Andrew Wiles
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience — Immanuel Kant
[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human… — Irving Langmuir
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the… — Miguel de Cervantes
I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in… — Abraham Lincoln

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