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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ↗

— Plutarch

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I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. ↗

— Amy Poehler

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A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

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I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#book #college #common #common sense #even