David J. C. MacKay famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.
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The bottom line in 2007 is that enrollment costs are going up substantially, drug coverage is declining and the brand name coverage in the doughnut hole is being eliminated... Medicare D is an insurance program, not a benefit. As consumption increases, so too will cost. The changes in 2007 clearly demonstrate the limitations of the program.
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In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder
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If all the ineffective ideas for solving the energy crisis were laid end to end, they would reach to the moon and back
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We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.
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We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.
-- David J. C. MacKay
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I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.
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So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.
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It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.
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Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.
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My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else.
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I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.
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I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
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I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
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As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.
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One comes, and one goes. Basically, what you leave behind is the record.
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