John Maynard Keynes Quotes
Galton's eccentric, sceptical, observing, flashing, cavalry-leader type of mind led him eventually to become the founder of the most important, significant and, I would add, genuine branch of sociology which exists, namely eugenics.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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I assure you, that this inestimable memento of his Excellency will be retained in my possession while I live - an object of sacred interest - a token not merely of the kind consideration in which I have reason to know that the President was pleased to hold me personally, but as an indication of his humane interest in the welfare of my whole race.
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Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
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It is well known that Russia has many interesting and promising developments in the military-technical sphere. We are ready to deliver the needed equipment and ready for joint cooperation in arms production with Brazilian specialists. This is an area that is very closely linked to high technology in general. In this respect, we hope to develop closer cooperation between the scientific communities in our two countries.
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He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.
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Does it really make sense for countries who really are producing very little IP of their own to be signing on to the strongest IP standards in the world? ... What's the advantage to them?
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Science studies the relations of things to each other: but art studies only their relations to man.
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“Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds”
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I do not believe I am exaggerating in affirming that the empire of Russia is a country whose inhabitants are the most miserable on earth, because they suffer at one and the same time the evils of barbarism and of civilization.
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I was one of those young girls that had no fear. I had goals. I knew that everything I touched would turn to gold.
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I like to make people dream and think and imagine and learn and study. Nowadays, music is so literal - it's telling you, "This is how it is," and my music's the opposite. I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know.
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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.
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We don’t have to do anything to be our True Self. It just is. If we simply let it be, it will express itself with no particular effort on our part. Indeed, any effort is usually in denying our awareness and expression of it.
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I can't see. I used to wear glasses off stage. Now I'm thinking of getting a pair of contract lenses.
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When scientific research is increasingly funded by private corporations that have a financial interest in particular outcomes of that research—is the drug effective or not?—scientific objectivity is undermined. When universities are more interested in patent royalties than in the open sharing of scientific information, the public suffers. There are hundreds of important political and economic issues surrounding science and technology. Sociology of science, at its best, has done much to clarify these issues. But sloppy sociology, like sloppy science, is useless or even counterproductive.[
