The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert
Recitation: by Male by Female
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
John Burroughs
YourselfPeopleWoodsYouFindWill
Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand.
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
FamilyLovePowerWomanManBack
I'm not going to allow myself to be pushed politically.
Andrew Cuomo
MyselfGoingAllowPushed
My parents would say, 'Why don't you go out and play?' and I would say, 'I can't! I'm putting on my shows!'
Andy Kaufman
ParentsYouPlayGoSayWhy
Not to be pompous about it - my thing in life is to write history and not to chat on TV 24 hours a day.
Michael Beschloss
LifeHistoryDayWrite24 HoursTV
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop.
Steven Sinofsky
SciencePerformanceManagementThink
Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Tre Cool
YouSmokeGot
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.
Robert B. Parker
CollegeMeSameOutLittleGone
I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made.
Rosamund Pike
NightLikeMadeTenderEverScott
How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?
Mary Renault
TrustPeopleHarvestSeeHowUnless
It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.
Jon Meacham
FaithThoughtPoliticalComplicated
What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.
Douglas Coupland
PeopleAliveHumanSomethingSure
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