Edward Felten Quotes
The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.
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Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
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In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
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The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.
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No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing.
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By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you'd no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art.
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I always loved the bad girls in the movies. I loved Bette Davis; I loved Katherine Hepburn. I loved Ava Gardner.
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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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I'm a '70s mom, and my daughter is a '90s mom. I know a lot of women my age who are real computer freaks.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
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I have popular support.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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And your work reflects a tradition that runs through our history - a belief that we’re greater together than we are on our own. And that’s what I’ve come here to talk about today.
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We do not need French post-structuralism, whose pedantic jargon, clumsy convolutions, and prissy abstractions have spread throughout academe and the arts and are now blighting the most promising minds of the next generation. This is a major crisis if there ever was one, and every sensible person must help bring it to an end.
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My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=.
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«Sometimes the best decision is to make no decision, which is also to make a decision.»
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In my mind, I'm always the best. I don't care what people think, what they say. In my mind, not just this year but always, I'm always the best.
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My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
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I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.
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It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
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The Japanese had, in fact, already sued for peace before the atomic age was announced to the world with the destruction of Hiroshima and before the Russian entry into war. ... The atomic bomb played no decisive part, from a purely military standpoint, in the defeat of Japan.
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People who focus on what they can't control are usually depressed, frustrated, angry, overwhelmed and lost. Sure, there's no way to look at the world and say it's fair, even or just.
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The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.
