"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."

Debt, Enemies, Irony

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"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."

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"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."

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"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth."

History, Science, Truth, Desire

"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?"

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"Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong."

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"We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely."

Time, Wisdom, People, Choices

"Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition."

Science, Faith, Blind, Will

"If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos."

Chaos, Environment, Insects, Mankind

"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction."

Nature, Key, Satisfaction, Spiritual

"The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago."

Circumstance, Interest, Plants, Rain

"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."

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"While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans."

Tom Harkin, American Politician

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"She had called in the debt that parents owe a child for bringing her, unasked, into a strange world. One should never make an offer without knowing full well what will happen if it is accepted."

David Brin, American Author

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"I think we are not serious about attacking the long-term debt problem, and that's one of the things that he's going to have to find a way to get on the agenda."

Michael Bloomberg, American Politician

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"Lose your freedom, and become a slave by borrowing."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

Herbert Hoover, American President

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"We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves."

John Buchan, Scottish Politician

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"I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them."

Ernie Banks, American Athlete

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"We all think we're going to get out of debt."

Louie Anderson, American Comedian

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"Wars are made to make debt."

Ezra Pound, American Poet

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"A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves."

Ralph W. Sockman, American Leader

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