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"Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores."

"All my life I've learned to suffer in silence."

"To replay human existence — fine, but to replay it in the way a drunk replays a corny tune, pushing coins over and over into the jukebox?"

"One of the many industries that Biden has a long record of letting “off the hook” is the war business. In that mode, Biden did more than any other Democratic senator to greenlight the March 2003 invasion of Iraq..."

"Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD."

"If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe."

"A batsman given to run-stealing need not open his mouth to gain the reputation of a wit."

"New York Times: Theodore Schultz, 95, Winner Of a Key Prize in Economics"

"No paper is more seminal for the fields of quantum foundations and quantum information than the 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen paper."

"If the vapid writings . . . did indeed emanate from him, I can only say that this implies a terrible post-mortem reduction of personal capacities."

"We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about."

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🇫🇷Catherine Bréchignac

Science

b. 1946

"In the labs, the young make things move, and the older ones follow like parents evolving with their children."

"The effective organization of industrial resources... alters in important respects in conformity with changes in extrinsic factors."

"Beware of averages. The average person has one breast and one testicle."

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Cynthia Bir

Technology

"Years of research have gone in to kind of what the makeup should be of this ordnance gelatin to really represent what damage you would see in your soft tissues...this is currently considered kind of the state of the art."

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🇺🇸Patricia Hill Collins

Education

b. 1948

"Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly."

"I hope this outbreak or this event may be over in something like April ."

"There is an invaluable treasure trove of useful historical data that has only just begun to be used to inform our actions. The lessons of 1918 , if well heeded, might help us to avoid repeating the same history today ."

"Sir Arthur Lewis - Biographical at nobelprixe.org"

"We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute."

"We see many fine sunsets here, unique in the splendour of their colour. No doubt the surroundings in this fairyland of blue and white do much to increase their beauty."

"Even though it’s applied science we’re dealin’ with, it still is – science!"

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🇦🇺Alistair Cameron Crombie

Science

1915–1996

"Grosseteste's contribution was to emphasize the importance of falsification in the search for true causes and to develop the method of verification and falsification into a systematic method of experimental procedure."

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🇬🇧Christopher Hill (historian)

"I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn’t change a thing about my life."

"Focus not only on identifying problems. Others will do that for you. Develop the skill of finding solutions to those problems. Do this and your stock will go up!"

"I have no interest sitting all day in Brussels committees enacting job-killing, democracy-destroying legislation inspired by the EU."

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🇺🇸Richard Fuller (minister)

Politics

1804–1876

"To-day, let us rise and go to our work. To-morrow, we shall rise and go to our reward."

"The two-person iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma is the E. coli of the social sciences, allowing a very large variety of studies to be undertaken in a common framework."

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