Nancy Leveson Quotes
Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Politics ruins the character.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'
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If he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Is it just my pride that's wounded?
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During a single week of July 1967, 164 Americans were killed and 2100 were wounded in city riots in the United States. We are truly fighting a two-front war and doing badly in both. Each war feeds on the other and, although the President assures us that we have the resources to win both wars, in fact we are not winning either.
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Yes, it was not journalism’s finest hour. But, MacAllister often argued, it never had been.
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One of the reasons that New York became great was that it's serviced by many, many different rivers and waterways. You have the Atlantic Ocean connected virtually right to it, and it's serviced by the East River and the Hudson River and lots of tributaries.
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An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
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At Yves Saint Laurent, I felt like the son-in-law - like I was part of the family, but not quite. When I was fired, I felt like the widow.
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We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.
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Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties.
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Constant exercise can keep the body trim and taut, but the face is another thing.
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People who are burdened by acute misgivings about their coping capabilities suffer much distress and expend much effort in defensive action . . . they cannot get themselves to do things they find subjectively threatening even though they are objectively safe. They may even shun easily manageable activities because they see them as leading to more threatening events over which they will be unable to exercise adequate control.
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Reliability engineers often assume that reliability and safety are synonymous, but this assumption is true only in special cases.
