"It's important that public funds be spent in research directions that are pushing market frontiers rather than working in existing areas. This means funding research not only on drugs but also on areas like life-style changes, even if the profit potential is lower for Big Pharma as you cannot sell that change as you can sell a medicine."

-- Mariana Mazzucato

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“The American people rightly look to their military leaders to be not only skilled in the technical aspects of the profession of arms, but to be men of integrity”
“A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions of the view must be committed to some particularly deplorable conclusion. Philosophers are not immune to this way of arguing.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it.”
“My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.”

Source : "A hit from a myth" by Kit Spring, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2003.
“Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.”
“In Hong Kong, in our generation that started out in the 1970s, being a director wasn't a big deal. We didn't even have director's chairs. We weren't particularly well paid. The social standing of a film director wasn't that high. It was a sort of a plebeian job, a second or third grade one. And the studio heads are always practical, there's never any fawning because someone is a director. There's very little snobbery about one's position as a director. The only ones people treated differently were those that were also stars; or the directors who also owned their companies.”
“Repentance doth alter a man's case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.”
“The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.”

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