Marcia Angell Quotes
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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The Israeli government has already established a fund to encourage young Arab women, specifically from the Bedouin community, to study engineering. We are funding their university studies and providing them with mentors who assist them with their studies and the job placement process.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.
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The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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We live too long for one marriage.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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His ignorance is encyclopedic.
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I tried to write 'Trainspotting' in standard English, but people weren't talking like that.
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Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.
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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
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Actors are very demanding because they have nowhere to hide. If I write a scene, it doesn't turn out very well, I don't ever have to show it to anyone; when you turn the camera on, or when you walk on stage, they have to feel like what's happening is real.
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One step at a time, I can walk around the world. Watch me.
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The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts because they realise that welfare is killing them.
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There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.
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Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.
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Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
