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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

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• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Stubborn

• I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Believe
  • Think

• I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Thought
  • Passionate
  • WIld

• I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Looking
  • Got
  • Six

• English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

  

  E. B. White
  • Education
  • Sometimes
  • English

• I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Me
  • Never
  • Everybody Else

• I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Up
  • Look
  • Definitely

• Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Outside

• I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Running

• I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Heart
  • Feeling
  • Ideas

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Choices
  • Need
  • Face

• While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Father
  • Peace
  • Storm

• A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • America
  • Talking
  • Internal

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Against
  • France
  • Attack

• People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Appreciate
  • Follow

• It's very sad that there's going to be a hiatus in manned space flight from the U.S. The Shuttle was a fantastic, hugely complex vehicle. It was inevitable it would come to an end, but this is the opportunity for the commercial world to get involved. As the Shuttle era ends, another window of opportunity opens.

  

  David Mackay
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Space

• That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Universe
  • Philosophy
  • Atoms

• I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing, to make sure I used every bit of the chicken and boil the bones till no flavor could be extracted from them.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • She
  • Food
  • Respect

• What Democrats haven't focused on are the kind of policies that would promote economic growth - such as making permanent the 2001/2003 tax cuts, opening up federal lands to more energy production, and reforming government to reduce its burden on business.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Up
  • Business
  • Energy

• The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.

  

  Alison Gopnik
  • Music
  • Real
  • Water

• A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Water