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  • Carolyn Chute Sadly I don't work well under restrictions. I need to forget the world and its rules and laws in order to enter the dreamlike flow of the fictional world. So I may be in some bad trouble.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Bono Sadly, I do my homework. I've a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I'll read C. Fred Bergsten's defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It's embarrassing to admit.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Emile Durkheim Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • Bob Dylan Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Stuart Chase Sanely applied advertising could remake the world.
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  • Harold Lindsell Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.
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  • Jonathan Swift Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Camilla Lackberg Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Brit Marling Science fiction has a way of letting you talk about where we are in the world and letting you be a bit of a pop philosopher without being didactic.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Bernard Werber Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the future.
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  • Aldous Huxley Science has ''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Albert Einstein Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James P. Hogan Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and con
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  • Bill Bryson Scientists tend to be unappreciated in the world at large, but you can hardly overstate the importance of the work they do.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bob Menendez Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security.
    Bob Menendez
    American politician (1954 - )
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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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  • George Bernard Shaw Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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