John Maynard Smith Quotes
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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Our approach to economic development must be modern, focused and in tune with the global trend.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
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See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!
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There is no longer any anonymity on the Web - unless we mandate it. The most personal information about your online habits is collected, bought and sold, often instantaneously and invisibly. Data collection is a business driven by profits at consumers' expense.
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India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.
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I've always been comfortable working with women and I've had two happy marriages. Draw what conclusions you like from that.
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
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If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.
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Thank you to the readers of the 'Huffington Post' for voting me the 'Hottest Freshman' of the 111th Congress. It's about time politicians from Illinois were known for something other than bad haircuts or having the ability to walk on water.
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I guess you could say I'm an addict - an adrenalin addict - I get great excitement and stimulation from doing stuff in public, even though I'm nervous and I have very bad stage fright.
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It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop
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It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.
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The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold.
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For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign.
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The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious.
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Information imposes certain criteria on how it can be stored.
