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"I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print."
"Beginning in June, Alabama seniors previously without prescription drug coverage should begin to see savings of between 10 and 25 percent on their medications."
"A mansion begins with one brick. A forest begins with one tree. A harvest begins with one seed. An ocean begins with one drop. A friendship begins with one gesture. A fire begins with one spark. A revolution begins with one idea."
"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
"What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country."
"It is better to start small than to not start at all because you are waiting to be perfect with your skills. The truth is that you can never achieve perfection in life. Even the greatest man on earth is still incapable of doing so. The ultimate goal is to start now and grow as you go."
"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."
Explore more quotes by John Charles Polanyi
"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."
"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight."
"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."
"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
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