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All Quotes Collection
"Also by my earliest days, I was fascinated by a utopian vision of what the world could be like. I've thought that science could be the basis for a better world, and that's what I've been trying to do all these years."
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"The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle."
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"Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation."
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"I was interested in science before I even knew what science was."
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"From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science."
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"None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act."
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"We must take proactive steps to promote democracy and human rights abroad."
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"We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq."
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"Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care."
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"This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil."
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"It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet."
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"I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about."
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"As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'."
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"Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted."
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"Let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with."
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"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."
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"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."
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"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
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"You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose."
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"Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything."
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"Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free."
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"The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice."
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"Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price."
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"Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it."
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"You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants."
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"You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily."
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"You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there."
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"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
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"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
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"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
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"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
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"If you desire faith, then you have faith enough."
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"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
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"How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital."
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"First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white."
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"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
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"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"
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"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
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"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."
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