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Laws are important. But they can only be effective if the people know about the particular laws. — Waris Dirie
But the fundamentalists, the "creationists," seize upon these vacancies in the scientific hotel to pack the conferences with their delegates. They see the opening-creativity is… — Ken Wilber
So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. — Neville Marriner
The particular feature of Berlin - well, all you need to do is look at the map: the geographical position of the city right in… — Markus Wolf
Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward. — Edward Felten
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… — Bernardino Ramazzini
[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Our idea of what constitutes social good has advanced with the procession of the ages, from those desperate times when just to keep body and… — Frances Perkins
I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work… — Alexander Kotov
The fruit of patience in all its aspects - long-suffering, forbearance, endurance, and perseverance - is a fruit that is most intimately associated with our… — Jerry Bridges
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to:… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them in particular, what we compare them… — Christian Nestell Bovee
As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead of acknowledging that… — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible. — George Polya
If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe… — Jerry Vlasak
The first degree of proficiency is, in painting, what grammar is in literature, a general preparation for whatever the student may afterward choose for more… — Joshua Reynolds
Once we admit that there is room for newness - that there are vastly more conceivable possibilities than realized outcomes - we must confront the… — Paul Romer
If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our opinion...There were always… — Jerry Vlasak
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who have had no… — Percy Williams Bridgman
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private… — Ernst Cassirer
I am not anarchist. I have nothing against government or law enforcement in general. It is solely for the reason that this govt has legalized… — Eric Rudolph
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the things of that particular country:… — Bruce Chatwin
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them,… — John Lewis Gaddis
There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The… — Eben Moglen
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species… — Desmond Morris

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