Charles Seife Quotes
Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
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My personal style is ever changing.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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I love to take baths.
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I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.
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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
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The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.
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Place hitting is, in a sense, glorified bunting. I only take a half swing at the ball, and the weight of the bat rather than my swing is what drives it.
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Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon dioxide emissions from human activity affect the ocean, changing the pH balance of the waters in a phenomenon known as ocean acidification.
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The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.
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I'm trying to get in where I fit in and take it to the next level.
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Exhibitions usually are not collected; they disperse after they take place.
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I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
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Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
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Commercial to the core, Elvis was the kind of singer dear to the heart of the music business. For him to sing a song was to sell asong. His G clef was a dollar sign.
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Doctors' investment in radium...the price of radium increased 1,000% when they began to use it on cancer victims.
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Just as it's important to take the changing value of a dollar into account when comparing spending over time, it's important to take doctors' changing diagnoses into account when looking at disease trends
