Ivar Giaever Quotes
If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.
Ivar Giaever
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
Karl Kraus
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
Ziggy Marley
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
Barbara Kruger
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But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.
Rafael Palmeiro
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The way to resumption is to resume.
Salmon Portland Chase
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Every season I am inspired by women.
Oscar de la Renta
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You don’t merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night’s washing-up.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.
Barack Obama
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
Barack Obama
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Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità, ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso prima di loro, talvolta al posto loro.
Umberto Eco
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I'm going, going, back, back, to Cali, Cali.
The Notorious B.I.G.
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If most of those who took part in this one-dimensional debate were honest with themselves, they would admit that they do not in principle believe that the United States can do any good overseas for anyone but the American government, its armed forces, or privileged American elites.
Christopher Hitchens
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I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not go over the points again.
Confucius
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Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.
Ammianus Marcellinus
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Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.
Theodore Roethke
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Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
Joan D. Vinge
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If I have learned anything as a scientist, it is that one should not make things complicated when a simple explanation will do.
Ivar Giaever
