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Our library has the most effective search engines yet invented—librarians who are highly skilled at ferreting out the uniquely useful references you need.
William R. Brody
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Which is easier to believe in, probability or God?...The ultimate fraud is the scientific atheist who believes in probability.
Bart Kosko
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It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do autobiography and call it biography.
John Dominic Crossan
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Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.
Jerome Wiesner
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The optimism of politics before a revolution is exceeded only by the pessimism of politics after one.
Catharine R. Stimpson
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I would suggest that a feminism which does not also seek to alter the exploitation of poorer women is not feminism at all, but is simply a varient for of upper-class politics & self-privileging.
Jack D. Forbes
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I do not know of any divine commands. I do know of most important human ones. I do not know the needs of a god or of another world.... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one. I do know that the needs of humanity and this world are infinite unending constant and immediate. They will take all our time our strength our love and our thoughts; and our work here will be only then begun.
Helen H. Gardener
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One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the elliptical wheel.
Walter M. Fitch
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True creativity is impossible without some measure of passion.
Teresa Amabile
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We see in Nature what we have been taught to look for, we feel what we have been prepared to feel.
Marjorie Hope Nicolson
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The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.
Toby Hemenway
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Spirituality for me is the sum total of all the acts of my day.
Ari L. Goldman
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I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me
Burton Raffel
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Legal concepts are supernatural entities which do not have a verifiable existence except to the eyes of faith.
Felix S. Cohen
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The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.
Austin Phelps
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We must intertwine business and ethics in a very fundamental way.
Robert Bruner
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How about "diamonds are a girl's best friends"? Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds.
Gina Barreca
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Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
Noah Feldman
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The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.
Eugene Habecker
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The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.
Myron Tribus
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Where once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.
Richard Mitchell
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The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
Thomas Woods
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Colleges and universities, for all the benefits they bring, accomplish far less for their students than they should. Many students graduate without being able to write well enough to satisfy their employers... reason clearly or perform competently in analyzing complex, non-technical problems.
Derek Bok
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I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years.... I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.
Charles Van Doren
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The human body comes in only two shapes and three colors. I don't expect there will be any changes, so what we learn about it now will serve us for a long time to come. The Fastest Man on Earth
John Stapp
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