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  • Anne Perry Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Bernard Marcus Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • Burt Rutan NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Marquis de Custine Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
    Marquis de Custine
    French aristocrat and writer
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  • James Joyce Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
    Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages (1907)
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Joseph Conrad Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Nations, like men, have their infancy.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
    Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1960)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Napoleon Hill Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Maya Angelou Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, ''I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.''
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Barry Schuler Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.
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  • Susan Sontag Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Bruce Lipton Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Christopher Marlowe Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.
    Christopher Marlowe
    British Dramatist, Poet (1564 - 1593)
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  • Bill Dedman NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • John Ruskin Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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