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• In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Technology, Opposites, Track

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.149, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.

  Richard Selzer

  Country, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• Why is the Rockefeller Commission so Single-Minded About a Lone Assassin in the Kennedy Case?.

  Cyril Wecht

  Assassins, Lone

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• The great soul of power extends far beyond states, to every domain of life, from families to international affairs. And throughout, every form of authority and domination bears a severe burden of proof. It is not self-legitimizing. And when it cannot bear the burden, as is commonly the case, it should be dismantled.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Burden Of Proof, Soul

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• It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

  Robert Nozick

  Philosophy, Ideas, Interesting

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• We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Country, Essentials, Nuclear

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.132, I.B.Tauris

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• I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Brother, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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• I heard many discourses which were good for the soul, but I could not discover in the case of any one of the teachers that his life was worthy of his words.

  Saint Basil

  Teacher, Soul, Worthy

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• I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark.

  Jane Mayer

  New York, Mean, Dark

  "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.

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• There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Fighting, Your Side, Law

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.131, Random House

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• In rendering its decision in our case, the Supreme Court equated money with speech because these days it takes the first to make yourself heard.

  James L. Buckley

  Decision, Speech, Firsts

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• The world censures those who take up arms to defend their causes and calls on them to use nonviolent means in voicing their grievances. But when a people chooses the nonviolent path, it is all too often the case that hardly anyone pays attention. It is tragic that people have to suffer and die and the television cameras have to deliver the pictures to people's homes every day before the world at large admits there is a problem.

  Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo

  Home, Mean, People

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• I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Strong Women, Fighting, Thinking

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• In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.

  C. Lloyd Morgan

  Exercise, Animal, Psychology

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• We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

  Francis Parkman

  Horse, Animal, Men

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.8, VM eBooks

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• ...animal research is essential to tackling major 21st century health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Without the use of animals it would be impossible, in many cases, to develop drugs or any sort of medical treatment.

  George Radda

  Cancer, Heart, Animal

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• Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Wall, Wind, Dancing

  "'We still have the same disease'". Interview with Margaret Wente, www.theglobeandmail.com. September 13, 2009.

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• In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to the man. This is particularly useful if your first service tends to be out in any case.

  Stephen Potter

  Moving, Men, Tennis

  Stephen Potter (1950). “Some notes on lifemanship: with a summary of recent researches in gamesmanship”

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• If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Strong, Buddhism

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• Men who would letterspace lower case would shag sheep.

  Frederic Goudy

  Men, Sheep, Design

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• There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.

  Brent Iverson

  Fun, Focus, Design

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• Pornography is writing that seeks primarily, even exclusively, to bring about sexual stimulation. This can be done crudely or delicately. In the former case it would be bad literature; in the latter good.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Writing, Creative, Would Be

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• As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.

  Greg Laurie

  Encouragement, Prayer, Thank God

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• Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been recognised and described, so much so that Charcot said: 'How is it that a disease so common, so widespread, and so recognisable at a glance - a disease which has doubtless always existed - how is it that it is recognised only now? Why did we need M. Duchenne to open our eyes?'

  Oliver Sacks

  Eye, Needs, Disease

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• I think people are too often misinformed and, in some cases, deceived. We don't have a full marketplace of ideas in this country that in any way reflects the broad, real range of ideas.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Real, Thinking

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