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Clayton Christensen Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.
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Nigel Harris Universities by their very nature encourage debate, question and challenge of conventional wisdom and existing theories. We are places where knowledge is discovered. We advance existing precepts and understandings by which society currently runs. And in that context, academic staff will time to time have views that are different from the government's.
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Mike McCormack We feel that to give kids access to college, that the academic part is important. But we feel that equally important is the aspect of students' ability to lead and mentor." ()
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Michael King The point I've always made is that I'm writing for a general audience, rather than just for an audience of academics or fellow historians.
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Renaldo Balkman Until a final decision is made, I will concentrate on my academics and improving my basketball skills.
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City High We are proud that we have fine examples of athletic and academic excellence amongst our varsity football athletes, ... These students are examples for the entire student body at Cathedral City High School.
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Mark Slonaker We are proud of Will's efforts in the classroom and we are glad to see that he is being recognized for his accomplishments. We hope this will bode well for him as he attempts to repeat as a first team Academic All-America selection.
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John Clippinger To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.
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Rudi Zeif We remain hopeful that there are living people among the missing that we can rescue. As we clear the beams we'll send dogs into the rubble to search for them.
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Jerry Stackhouse We're spoiled. We're at a point now where we expect to win them all. We're among the top teams in the Western Conference, if not the top team. We expect to win all the time.
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Rick Wagoner We're going to take some time here, think in terms of 30 to 60 days, to step back and decide the next step in this journey, ... There's interest among others for various forms of transactions. So we'll have options. We just haven't decided yet what makes the most sense for GM. In 30 to 60 days we'll be ready to try again with something that we expect will work this time.
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Jeff Joerres When we deliver the service, we've got some just incredible loyalty among our clients. The fact of the matter is, I'm immensely disappointed in our ability to go out and sell the service.
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Rick Crawford What a great race among the veterans out there. I needed to run my line and make sure Musgrave and Setzer battled it out. They did and I won.
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Roger Payne Whales are humanity's canary in the coal mine, ... As ocean pollution levels increase, marine mammals like whales will be among the first to go.
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Shimon Peres What he started will never be forgotten and we shall continue to act in the same way until we shall achieve the most noble goal of our life, and that is peace among ourselves and our neighbors.
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Donnie Walsh What he gave to this franchise, this city and this state, for 18 years, puts him among the elite athletes to have played professional sports. No. 31 in the rafters adds another legacy to the great tradition of Indiana basketball.
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James Chessen What we're recommending is that people take out as much cash as they would need for a long weekend. And if you're relying on credit cards, request copies of your credit report before and after the century change so you can spot and correct any Y2K errors immediately.
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DuBose Egleston We're moving into the 21st century - and people expect you to be available. I've had about 200 visitors to the site so far in this campaign. Two hundred people - that's 200 people that you might influence to vote for you.
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Tom Browning We're moving into the 20th century. I know it's the 21st century already, but at least we'll finally be in the 20th century.
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Siri Hustvedt Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century has never left me.
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Alan Hovhaness It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
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Ellen Galinsky We are seeing a workplace in transition, shifting from models that served the needs of the 20th century to those that serve the needs of the 21st century--and most of these changes that make work 'work' for employers and employees appear to be here to stay.
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James Packer We believe that punters will appreciate having access to an exciting new 21st century product and that racing and sport throughout the country will also benefit.
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Igor Ivanov We are at the start of the 21st century and there are many risks in the world and we think that collaboration between Russia and the Vatican corresponds to the common good,
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Robert Putnam There are deep parallels between the plight of America at the turn of the last century and the plight of America today.
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Doug Hudgins When we did that, we found that putting a little nitrogen in these molecules explained the troubling molecules. This discovery takes this reservoir of molecules that we didn't think were interesting and transforms all this stuff into something of biologic interest.
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Preston Burch What makes Hubble worthwhile, ... is putting in new science instruments that have state-of-the-art detectors to really make the leaps forward...what we call the 'science discovery factor.' Those are the things that are really going to make Hubble a useful and desirable space research vehicle beyond the 2008 time frame.
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Arthur H. Compton Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.
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Alan Arkin But one of the things I learned from improvising is that all of life is an improvisation, whether you like it or not. Some of the greatest scientific discoveries of the 20th century came out of people dropping things.
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Alan Alda Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Aiden Wilson Tozer Rules for Self Discovery: 1. What we want most; 2. What we think about most; 3. How we use our money; 4. What we do with our leisure time; 5. The company we enjoy; 6. Who and what we admire; 7. What we laugh at.
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Chogyam Trungpa The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and dignity of human life, without either hesitation or arrogance. Then magic can descend onto our existence.
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Jill Lepore One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face of the eighteenth century, no one ever took his sister's likeness.
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David McCullough My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.
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Laurence Housman The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
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Robert Reich Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.
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Alan J. Heeger Polymeric materials in the form of wood, bone, skin and fibers have been used by man since prehistoric time. Although organic chemistry as a science dates back to the eighteenth century, polymer science on a molecular basis is a development of the twentieth century.
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Bible Bible Now in the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.
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Jill Lepore Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they were new, too - started printing essays about them.
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Jerry Howard The St. James is a great example of history meeting high-rise luxury. This winning property incorporated four existing eighteenth century buildings into a residential skyscraper that has changed its city's skyline.
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Octavio Paz Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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Yang Jiechi We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.
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Gary Locke We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.
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Carlos Montoya Help bridge people out of currency exchanges and used car dealerships and payroll lenders and auto lenders and check cashers,
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Li Zhaoxing China-US relations have, on the whole, maintained stability and growth. Dialogues and exchanges at the various levels have improved mutual understanding and mutual trust,
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Li Zhaoxing China is concerned about and supports the construction of the AU, and attaches importance to increasing exchanges and cooperation with the AU,
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Martin Schulz China is a strong market in which European companies have a lot of chances as Chinese companies have many chances in trade exchanges with Europe. China's good development is in the interest of both China itself and the European Union.
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Wen Jiabao China has conducted technological exchanges and cooperation with the international community on prevention and control of bird flu.
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Luo Gan China and Latin America have seen improved political relations and close trade exchanges in recent years.
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Sellapan Ramanathan Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.
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John Clippinger To move online security to the next level, there has to be fundamental resolve among consumers, government and business to quickly adopt a system where the individual has more control over how information about them is managed and shared. Our aim is to construct an open and widely accessible software framework that puts the individual at the centre of the identity management universe. With this framework in place, it will be easier for society to begin the migration to more secure online environments, where trusted networks can not only be easily formed, but effectively enforced. For in the end, security is not just technological, but social.
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Mark Miles We felt it was important to create a forum to express and exchange ideas over this issue and we are providing a framework to move forward,
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Eric Rabe We believe we reached a good general framework for obtaining a contract, but right now we're down to the wire. I'm still optimistic that we'll get it done in a few days but I'm not sure we'll get it done today.
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Ariel Sharon (U.S.) President (George W.) Bush's framework will be brought to the government I intend to form after the elections for approval, and I will work with all my strength to make it as broad a unity government as possible,
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Pink Pink Year over year, we have noticed an increasing interest from global organizations that not only want to learn ITIL theory, but also want to understand how they can adapt the framework to tackle top IT issues such as governance and security, ... Over the next ten years, Pink Elephant will continue to lead the way and create dynamic programming at the Conference that equips IT professionals with the most essential and up-to-date information.
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George Foster We want the players to have a framework to evaluate business opportunities put in front of them. The sporting theme (inspires) much more passion for a lot of people, but a lot of sporting ideas go bankrupt, so passion is not enough. You've got to have revenues come through the door and you've got to contain your cost.
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Abdullah Gul We want to start negotiations, and we are working for this but within the framework of the realities,
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Ray Krauss The other two are protection of biodiversity and preservation of the local ranching economy. We have a guiding framework that's helping managers plan for their individual parcels with all those goals in mind.
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Brian Leonard We believe that the integrated solution from Sun and Websense Web Security Ecosystem offers a comprehensive framework to customers who are seeking best-of-breed security solutions that address today's dynamic web-based security threats.
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Mitch Dorger We're fortunate that the game always generates a lot of interest. But with these two universities, and the success that they've had, I think there's a lot more interest than in most years.
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Michel Onfray By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.
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Rig Veda The one who, having killed the serpent, released the seven rivers; the one who drove out the cows by undoing .. one who generates fire between two rocks, victor in battles, he, O people, is Indra.
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Alice Schroeder With this transaction, Berkshire is now clearly an insurance company that will generate excess capital and cash flow that can be invested and, of course, the real synergy here is that Warren Buffett is the master at allocating and using capital and General Re is a company that generates an enormous amount of excess capital, so it's a great fit.
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Elizabeth Price Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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Ellen McLaughlin I don't do my best work while I'm in therapy. I'm too onto myself immediately seeing meanings in things and more likely to censor myself. I'd rather find images I don't understand. That's what generates the work.
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Michel Gondry We were hoping to define an era and a community without being too lecturing - to show people having a good time. On camera and off, Dave is charming. I thought it would be good to follow him around with a camera because he generates so much warmth.
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Roger Gibbins Ultimately we want to invest it so it generates income and then be able to use that income for a variety of purposes within the province.
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Tom Sawyer I would rather see this land privately developed so that it generates tax income.
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Tim Graham We've always kind of made an agreement that our sub-varsity teams wouldn't leave the area. We might go to Shelton or Elma with our C-team, but we won't go to Tacoma.
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Scott Walker We've always had the rallying cry of, 'Hey, nobody out there thinks we can do it,' and that was fun. We've never really had a star player, and there's never really been a case of 'So-and-so didn't produce and that's why we're losing.' So it might take a little adjustment, but I think we're definitely a lot better team with him.
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Odell Thurman When we were coming into the (scouting) combine, they asked who was the best back you played against, and I said (Williams) the whole time. He's going to be great. You look at him, and you might not think he's all that strong. But he's a power runner. It's the style he plays.
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Kyle Whittingham When we went to 12 games, everybody kind of went into panic mode because scheduling a game is not quite as easy as you might think. Usually, these games are scheduled five, six, seven years in advance.
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Dave Parker When I wasn't selected for an interview for council, I kind of thought this might be coming,
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Mike Curb When I was lieutenant governor, Jerry Brown was governor and you might recall that he spent just about a year of my term out of the state.
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Rocky Carroll When I was a kid growing up, there might be 10 shows on the air that had been on for ten seasons or eleven seasons. 'Gunsmoke' ran for over twenty years.
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Matt Sayers Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday.
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Patrik Schowitz We remain positive on equities but it might be time to take money off the table in the most straightforward (cyclical) sectors.
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David Diehl We got two special-teams touchdowns. You can't say our offense has produced all that. But it sure is a nice number, isn't it?
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Richard Wiles The persistent, toxic chemicals we identified in this study are important, heavily used industrial substances, some of which are produced in quantities up to 500 million pounds a year. At the very least, Americans have a right to know if companies are releasing these pollutants into their communities. In fact, we should have begun tracking these pollutants years ago. Instead of curbing reports on the most worrisome pollutants to please industry, the Bush Administration should be expanding the tracking system to inform and protect the public.
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Chris Horner We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.
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Tisha Hill We've also got a chip on our shoulder, because all our hard work in practice still hasn't produced wins. We can't really worry about our opponents, we need to focus on ourselves first.
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James Yee West Point has the reputation for producing leaders, and it produces patriotic men and women who want to serve the country, ... And it produced me.
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Miguel Nicolelis We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.
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Mark Hopkins No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
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Kathleen Finch When you think of crafting, the sort of old-fashioned notion of crafting, they just busted all those images. In a lot of ways, this is the ultimate DIY project. They found each other, they had an idea, a friend produced the show for them, and they basically delivered the show to us. When we saw it, we thought they had such fabulous chemistry.
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Hit-Boy Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surreal, man. One of those situations I'll never forget. I'll be able to show my kids the footage of when Jay-Z brought me onstage.
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Richard Foreman We've always respected Israel's right to defend itself, including going after armed groups and armed men in some of these areas. But we've always said they need to do that in a manner which has the utmost care to avoid harm to civilians, particularly when they're conducting operations in heavily populated areas. And we've said that often results in tragedies and numerous deaths. And that appears to be what's happened again.
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John Gibbons You don't look at results in the minor leagues because I don't think I've ever seen a guy go down there and not get hit around.
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Richard Miranda We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.
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Mark Swartzberg We remain concerned about the company's long-term outlook and management's preparedness to address the challenges. Still, built-in expectations or valuation appear to be low, and 2006 should benefit from the structural elimination of Brazil and a year of disappointing results in 2005.
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James Ritterbusch We're going to see refineries further ramp up gasoline production as they come back on line. Concerns about gasoline will fade as this results in increased stocks.
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Jim Harper What we're seeing is just the start of a trend in which government prosecutors will use (Internet) search results in criminal investigations.
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Tracy Egeland What they've done speaks for itself. They're a team with 18 guys pulling the same way. The results are pretty evident; they're winning a lot more games than they're losing.
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Chris Capossela When we asked people what would you like us to do in the next version of Office, nine times out of 10 people have named something that is already in the product. In Office 12, we are making a much more innovative UI to help you get better results faster.
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John Lubbock When we have done our best, we should wait the results in peace
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David M. Kelley When I was in high school, I lettered in math. The only thing that was important was football. There were two other letters that were awarded each year. One was in math and one was in science. I got the math one. But you didn't put it on a letter sweater and wear it around because they'd be throwing you in a wastebasket upside down on your head.
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Mario J. Molina When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.
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John Sulston When it came to choice of subjects, science was obvious - since I was uninterested in anything else - but a decision that caused consternation in some eyes was my demand to take biology for A-level.
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John Carpenter When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' 'X: The Unknown.' I love 'Forbidden Planet,' 'The Thing from Another World.' They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
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Michael Novacek We respect people's beliefs, and conversion is not necessarily our goal. We hope that every visitor will have a clearer idea of what Darwin did and, for that matter, what science means.
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Paul Johansen We're going to stick to science on this thing and avoid speculation.
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Johannes Vilhelm Jensen Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
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Brian Greene When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.
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James Sanborn What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
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Tom Kehoe Working with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission , we have issued a voluntary recall for the defective notebook batteries.
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Todd Sloan We are proud to be a part of the team of industry leaders brought together to showcase Hydrogen technology for these TUG airport ground support vehicles. With millions of dollars of funding available through the Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) program to poor air quality 'non-attainment' airports throughout the United States, projects like this where the end product has near zero emissions, will prove to be a popular choice.
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Ann Fisher When you test a newborn, you're only testing for the mother's antibodies. This makes a mockery of the whole notion of voluntary testing for pregnant women.
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Nick Harkaway With true free speech has to come an understanding of when and when not to use it. But you can't legislate that. It must be voluntary - especially in a world where a whisper can reach a million people in an eye blink.
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James E. Faust We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.
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Charles Eastman The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
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Karen Traviss Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Robert Hayes Nearly 20 million of the 21 million people already had drug coverage. The voluntary enrollment rate compares miserably with the rate achieved in the 11-month period when Medicare was originally launched in 1966. Nearly all eligible Americans signed up for the program back then.
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John McDonough One of the lessons we learned from other states, such as Maine, is that voluntary doesn't get you where you want to go. If you really want to achieve a dramatic breakthrough in expansion of coverage, you have to be willing to take the political heat and political risk.