#acts

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making. ↗

— Ted Danson

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to. ↗

— Don DeLillo

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Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#contracts #employment #even #in the past #less

In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life. ↗

— Mario Vazquez

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Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

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Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests. ↗

— Richard Ben-Veniste

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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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