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  • Paul Valery Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Ben Goldacre Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency; being clear about your methods; being honest about your results; and drawing a clear line between the results, on the one hand, and your judgment calls about how those results support a hypothesis.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Alfred Hitchcock Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Philip Roth Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
    Zuckerman Unbound (2013)
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham Seeing is believing, and if an American success is to count for anything in the world it must be clothed in the raiment of property. As often as not it isn't the money itself that means anything; it is the use of money as the currency of the soul.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Barbara Kruger Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated with images, we are finally learning that photographs do indeed lie.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Doug Horton Seeing the light is a choice, not seeing the light is no choice.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Anne Cassidy Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.
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  • Anne Lamott Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Seneca Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alan Greenspan Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
    Senaats committee in 1987
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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  • Anna Louise Strong So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Bill Frist Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Vaughan Some idea of inflation comes from seeing a youngster get his first job at a salary you dreamed of as the culmination of your career.
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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  • Bee Wilson Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Lewis Thomas Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • James Russell Lowell Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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