Edward Tenner Quotes
One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
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I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
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There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I don't think anyone has qualms in saying victory to the people of India. But when a political party appropriates such a slogan and says this is the definition of patriotism, those who say it are patriotic and those who don't are not patriotic, then I reject that definition.
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Hair wax is my go-to. When it comes to shampoo, I use whatever is at the rink.
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Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.
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In Russia, or anywhere, people don't like rich people. Yeah, OK, I have money, but the question is how I use it. It's not easy, believe me; it's not easy.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.
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What is fetus farming? Simply put, it is the creation and development of a human fetus for the purposes of later killing it for research or for harvesting its organs.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.
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I'm a very low-key person, but for some reason, I like to act out.
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I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
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I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
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If more people start selling ugly produce we have a chance to crack the hunger and malnutrition problems in the U.S. (Almost 90% of us do not get enough fruits and veggies).
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
