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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #describe #get #make #model

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand! ↗

— Daniel Boone

#bid #blessings #commerce #descending #hand

I hate the idea of getting in a building that someone else has designed and having to do something to it yourself to sort of dress it up - it's like using presets in your tracks. ↗

— Sean Booth

#designed #dress #else #getting #hate

It's incredible, but I think a lot of people it shot over their heads 'cause they're used to just getting images and messing around with them, and for us to do something quite so 'designed' was a bit of a shock. ↗

— Sean Booth

#bit #cause #designed #getting #heads

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#destroying #enough #gentle #growth #his

In general, every country has the language it deserves. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#deserves #every #general #language

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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Many traditional religions foster attitudes that ought to have disappeared as biological understanding accumulated over the last century. ↗

— George C. Williams

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During the past three years spectacular progress has been made in increasing wheat, rice, and maize production in several of the most populous developing countries of southern Asia, where widespread famine appeared inevitable only five years ago. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

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I am desperate to do a comedy now. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

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