Ben Goldacre Quotes
The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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I tried a robin heart once. It wasn't very good.
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I like to be lean and flexible. I'm not interested in gaining size.
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Home is the seminary of all other institutions.
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Life is about making choices: you can either spend three quid on a glossy magazine or you can spend it clearing three square metres of minefield and help give people their lives back. As simple as that.
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History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.
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The value of a scientific publication goes beyond this simple benefit, of all relevant information appearing, unambiguously, in one place. It's also a way to communicate your ideas to your scientific peers, and invite them to express an informed view.
