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• A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

  Mark Foley

  Office, Energy, Cost

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• It was not until some weeks later that I realized there is no need to restrict oneself to 2 by 2 matrices. One could go on to 4 by 4 matrices, and the problem is then easily soluable. In retrospect, it seems strange that one can be so much held up over such an elementary point. The resulting wave equation for the electron turned out to be very successful. It led to correct values for the spin and the magnetic moment. This was quite unexpected. The work all followed from a study of pretty mathematics, without any thought being given to these physical properties of the electron.

  Paul Dirac

  Successful, Discovery, Goes On

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• Studies show that the more often families eat together, the less likely kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders and consider suicide, and the more likely they are to do well in school, delay having sex, eat their vegetables, learn big words and know which fork to use.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Suicide, Sex, School

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• A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, People, Microsoft

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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• When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me at a very young age.

  Dries van Noten

  Inspiration, Grandparent, Age

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• The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method.

  Ninette de Valois

  Years, Way, Method

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• I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

  Thomas Browne

  Community, Sake, Monopoly

  Sir Thomas Browne, Sir Kenelm Digby, Thomas CHAPMAN (of Exeter College, Oxford.) (1831). “Religio Medici”, p.118

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• Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?

  Larry Wall

  Latin, Greek, Intuition

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• Most professionals specialize in only part of the complex community revitalization process. Incomplete efforts usually create messy, expensive, demoralizing failures. Few specialists understand how to bring a place back to life with a holistic approach. If anyone understands the complete revitalization process, it's Storm Cunningham. He's spent over a decade rigorously studying successes and failures worldwide. He can look at a community, regional, or organizational regeneration or redevelopment process, and quickly spot what's wrong...what's missing.

  Lindsey Davis

  Effort, Community, Missing

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• Robert Zubrin’s masterful study…makes for riveting reading. . a cautionary tale of what happens when powerful, unprincipled elites are not only alienated from the mass of their fellow men, but come to see them as a barrier to imagined social, evolutionary, or environmental progress.

  Steven W. Mosher

  Powerful, Reading, Men

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• No battle can be won in the study, and theory without practice is dead.

  Alexander Suvorov

  Practice, Battle, Theory

  "Suvorov". Book by K. Ossipov, 1945.

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• Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Country, College, Keys

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• There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

  Leland Ryken

  Literature, Growing, Revolution

  Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.11, Zondervan

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• The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Party, People, Germany

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• When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three ‘E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

  Eugene Odum

  Optimistic, Challenges, Together

  Eugene Pleasants Odum (1993). “Ecology and our endangered life-support systems”

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• I spent a few years here in Memphis, in the late '70s and early '80s, where I was studying a lot of country blues players and their styles. So it seems like every record I'll do, I will appropriate these blues styles that I remember.

  Alex Chilton

  Country, Player, Years

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• Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as a Third World city. The Tattooed Soldier is a riveting book that manages to be at once politically informed and at the same time a psychologically astute study of that most elemental of stories: revenge.

  Stuart Dybek

  Revenge, Book, Cities

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• I have tried to put myself in the position of someone seeing economics for the first time. My goal is to emphasize the material that students should and do find interesting about the study of the economy.

  Greg Mankiw

  Goal, Interesting, Firsts

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• The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.

  Ziggy Marley

  Real, Gmo Foods, Gmos

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The real preparation for education is the study of one's self.

  Maria Montessori

  Real, Self, Preparation

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• I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

  Jez Butterworth

  Trying, Example, Different

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• If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Simplicity, Wish

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• I found it stimulating to study the sciences. It was a side of understanding the universe that I hadn't been exposed to.

  Jane Siberry

  Understanding, Sides, Found

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• You cannot study the Bible diligently and earnestly without being struck by an obvious fact-the whole matter of personal holiness is highly important to God!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Important, Holiness, Matter

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• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

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