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“The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.”
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“I think a lot of the reason people are attracted to the Keystone pipeline is because at least we're doing something. There's a fear that society will collapse if it's not acting. To contrast those actions with other actions is important in making it feel plausible. Maybe we must have the size of the dream meet the size of the threat.”
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“Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.”
Source : "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April, 2014.
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“With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.”
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“And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.”
Source : Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.338, Random House
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“I've always thought I had pretty good instincts for people. There is a short list of people I've worked with over my career with whom I've not been able to distinguish easily between the public persona and the real private person.”
Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
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“The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction by a set of laws which are amazing in their simplicity.”
Source : Melvin Schwartz (2012). “Principles of Electrodynamics”, p.105, Courier Corporation
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“I have a plot, but not much happens.”