David Willetts Quotes
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We have got to go into an offense where it continually moving, and I can't have anyone sit around and watch because it doesn't fit into the scheme.
B. R. Hayden
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I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.
Ken Robinson
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Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
Albert Einstein
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
Charles Dickens
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So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
Jonathan Swift
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There are the people in this world who act, and the people who scheme. The ones who act get things done, and the ones who scheme try to take credit for it. You must know that as well as I do.
Algis Budrys
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The whole government is a Ponzi scheme.
Bernard Madoff
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It is literally crazy to be committing to an ETS (emissions trading scheme) before seeing the outcome of Copenhagen . . . and frankly idiotic before we see the final form of the US emissions trading scheme.
Nick Minchin
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The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.
Esperanza Spalding
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I've done everything I've wanted to do. I have three children, I have grandchildren, I have books, I did movies, I've directed movies, I've done almost everything I've wanted to do.
Carl Reiner
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We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.
Joseph Stalin
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I think the use of lethal injection is the way of lying to ourselves, to make it look like executions are peaceful, are benign, are sort of like going to sleep, and they're not. They're brutal things.
Alex Kozinski
