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• A lot of scientists on Earth think of things that they could do in zero g. Things like the way metals cure, for example, and the way fluids react in space can tell us a lot about some of the unknowns we have on Earth.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Thinking, Space, Example

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• Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.

  Rick Levin

  Games, Benefits, World

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• There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

  Maynard Webb

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Sleep

  "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• However, in spite of the general perception that monetary policy should be conducted so as to avert deflation, a central bank cannot lower interest rates below the zero lower bound.

  Toshihiko Fukui

  Perception, Should, Deflation

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• Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

  Derek R. Audette

  Life, Infinity, Backwards

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• Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

  Tony Abbott

  Retirement, Australia, People

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• Often in America people would assume that [as an English actor] you've had some sort of deep, classical training, or that you're a Shakespeare enthusiast. I have zero interest in me performing Shakespeare.

  Bill Nighy

  America, People, Training

  "Bill Nighy Stops the Clock". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2013.

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  Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

  Victor Hugo

  Philosophy, Nihilism, Doe

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Destiny, World, Obedience

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.192, CUP Archive

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• What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish? How do we get from zero to plus five?

  Martin Seligman

  Enabling, Plus, Humans

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• Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Political, Infinite

  Arthur Koestler (2011). “Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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• Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.

  Elvis Costello

  Mother, Father, Mean

  Song: Less Than Zero, Album: My Aim Is True, 1977

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• I'm asking Congress to pass my Zero Down Payment Initiative. We should remove the 3 percent down payment rule for first time home buyers with FHA-insured mortgages.

  George W. Bush

  Home, Firsts, Asking

  President's Remarks to the National Association of Home Builders, Columbus, Ohio, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 02, 2004.

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• The technical reason why remastering is valuable is because, up to around the late 90s, there was this endpoint called zero, and you couldn't get louder than zero.

  Kevin Shields

  Reason Why, Late, Valuable

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Understanding, Essentials

  "Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on the Economy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2008.

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• What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.

  Paul Krugman

  Sound, Enough, Economy

  "Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on the Economy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Writing, Littles

  "John Hodgman Discusses 'More Information Than You Require'". Online chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 29, 2008.

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• Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.

  Vanna Bonta

  Animal, Earth, Abdominals

  Zero Gravity Interview (2006), as quoted in Laura S. Woodmansee "Sex in Space" (p. 31), August 1, 2006.

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• The Joker is a psychopathic, mass-murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. Last week I probably slept an average of two hours a night. I couldn't stop thinking. My body was exhausted, and my mind was still going.

  Heath Ledger

  Thinking, Night, Two

  "In Stetson or Wig, He’s Hard to Pin Down". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. November 4, 2007.

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• What the hell do doctors know about exercise? Most of them know zero. You gotta push elderly people to failure like anybody else. Then the body responds.

  Jack LaLanne

  Exercise, Doctors, Elderly

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• HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay any taxes.

  Rick Warren

  America, Doe, Half

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 26, 2011

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• While greenies and their media flunkies continue to savage the gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine and rhapsodize about hybrids, hydrogen, electrics, natural gas, propane, nuclear, and God-knows-what-other panaceas, perhaps including bovine urine, there are no realistic, economically viable alternatives. None. Zero. Like it or not, as long as we remain dependent on the private automobile for transportation (roughly 80 percent of all movement in the nation is by car), we are harnessed to the IC gas engine.

  Brock Yates

  Media, Car, Long

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• There was zero time for reflection. We had to feed the prisoners three meals a day, deal with the prisoner breakdowns, deal with their parents, run a parole board. By the third day I was sleeping in my office. I had become the superintendent of the Stanford county jail. That was who I was: I'm not the researcher at all. Even my posture changes--when I walk through the prison yard, I'm walking with my hands behind my back, which I never in my life do, the way generals walk when they're inspecting troops.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Running, Sleep, Reflection

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• Samuelson spotted a mistake in Bacheliers work. Bachelier's model had failed to consider that stock prices cannot fall below zero.

  William Poundstone

  Mistake, Fall, Stock Price

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.122, Macmillan

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• For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

  Ellen Willis

  Crush, Mistake, Teaching

  "Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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