"It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives."

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Philip Kitcher

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then”
“Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.”
“We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.”
“David Beckham is not bigger than the Galaxy.”
“The end is nothing; the road is all.”

Source : Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.76, U of Nebraska Press
“It was also incredibly serendipitous that I would later learn I shared a birthday with Whoop [Goldberg ]. I went on to be inspired by many other artists and forms of art, and was soon directed to a place that would help harness my experiences and develop my voice within the craft, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York City.”

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“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”
“Only in black and white can I see the design and textures. I don't consider color photography art. Black and white is an interpretation. Color is a duplication.”

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