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Michael Ondaatje

"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."

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"Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light."

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"A successful radiation researcher must research both radiation and the harmful biological effects of the radiation exposures received by the researcher."

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"I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job."

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"The biologically harmful effects of man-made environmental radiation was a jigsaw of existing information that needed to be assembled by a group of independent researchers that had a broad range of knowledge and were free of corrupt corporate government influence."

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"I am in favor of stem-cell research. I am not in favor of creating new human embryos through cloning."

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"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."

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"We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research."

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"That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes."
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"Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous."
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"The past is still, for us, a place that is not safely settled."
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"I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries."
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"In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind."
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"It's a discovery of a story when I write a book, a case of inching ahead on each page and discovering what's beyond in the darkness, beyond where you're writing."
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