Vaclav Smil Quotes

Most scientific or engineering discoveries would never become successful products without contributions from other scientists or engineers. Every major invention is the child of far-flung parents who may never meet.

Vaclav Smil

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I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

Joe Biden

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I'm not going to let anyone tell me that I can't perform, that I'm not artistic.

Max Aaron

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I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

Sue Kelly

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I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.

Tom Perrotta

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1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.

Tom Brokaw

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Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

Ronny Chieng

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These are human issues. These are human stories. I think that's why 'Fences' has been able to resonate and been able to hit so many people over the years because it is just that. You can't run away from the racial specifics of it, but that's just a part of it.

Russell Hornsby

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I've met people of great faith. I sat in the home of Billy Graham and in the residence of Cardinal Dolan and prayed with these men of God.

Mitt Romney

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Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.

Dian Fossey

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Don't bring on the design engineers too soon. One of the worst things you can do in the early phases of a project is to bring on a bunch of detailed design engineers and then not give them clear direction and close supervision.

Bruce Pittman

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I know I wanted to be with somebody and have children. My heart comes before my work.

Peggy Lipton

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We've all watched hundreds of movies from characters' points of view that are not our own. That's part of the gift movies give us.

Scott Derrickson

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