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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did. ↗

— Sally Ride

#did #encouragement #friends #got #i

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#anything #common #common sense #essentials #great

I'm confident that the terrorists are aware that from the curb to the cockpit we've got additional security measures that didn't exist a couple of years ago. ↗

— Tom Ridge

#ago #aware #cockpit #confident #couple

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. ↗

— Laura Riding

#brings #cannot #consciousness #degree #experience

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#cells #community #inhabitants #innumerable #made

And I think that every American - this is an all-hands-on-deck moment for America. And I think it is good and important that every American is informed, understands the issues and whether I agree with them or not, comes into the public forum and we hear from them. ↗

— Scott Rigell

#america #american #comes #every #forum

The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. ↗

— David Riesman

#become #both #created #different #each

In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#country #cultural #culture #deep #dimension

The insurance companies aren't covering that. Should Monsanto be liable for these losses? Should the state government? Who's going to cover the losses? The fact is, here's an industry with no long-term liability in place. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#cover #covering #fact #going #government

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

#cusp #forward #future #humanity #i