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I attempted to see famines as broad "economic" problems (concentrating on how people can buy food, or otherwise get entitled to it), rather than in… — Amartya Sen
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature… — Francis Bacon
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because.… — John Charles Polanyi
In the future the question will not be, "Are people credit-worthy", but rather, "Are banks people-worthy?" — Muhammad Yunus
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow… — John Charles Polanyi
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the… — Michael Faraday
Our flag is not just one of many political points of view. Rather, the flag is a symbol of our national unity. — Adrian Cronauer
To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you… — Heraclitus
Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. — John B. S. Haldane
Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson
Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be honest with you, I'd rather not be working. When you work, there are all sorts of deadlines and pressures. I like to do… — Benicio Del Toro
Such is my veneration for every religion that reveals the attributes of the Deity, or a future state of rewards and punishments, that I had… — Benjamin Rush
Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound… — Thomas Carlyle
You may have decided again and again, and again and again you have failed - not because smoking is such a great phenomenon that you… — Rajneesh
I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company. — Reuben Archer Torrey
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the… — Sri Chinmoy
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model… — Alexander Calder
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or… — Gustave Courbet
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures. — Martin Kippenberger
I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what… — Mike Huckabee
I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism.… — Thomas Jefferson
Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out… — Peter Kreeft
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists… — Thomas Kuhn
I've never needed a lobbyist personally to put my case. I'd rather put my case myself. But I don't understand how other people look at… — Clive Palmer

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