Edmund Morris Quotes
Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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I'm very interested in science.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.
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My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.
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A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.
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In China, going public has a cachet from a branding standpoint. It will improve our image to ad agencies, government regulators.
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I would like to see whether my supposed successors can really operate the government without causing a crisis.
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The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.
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Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.
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As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community - as well as the majority of heterosexuals - cannot and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex.
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Governments have a favorite phrase: 'lean and mean.' But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
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My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.
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Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around.
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Dealing with a government with whom mendacity is a science is an extremely difficult matter.
