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We now need to look beyond our immediate future and aim higher and farther. ↗

— Paul Biya

#beyond #farther #future #higher #immediate

'Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace. ↗

— Ahmet Davutoglu

#equally #establish #important #neighbors #peace

People aren't as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our 'civic duty' to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent. ↗

— Bob Black

#compulsory #constituent #duty #laughing #more

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced. ↗

— Bob Black

#forced #might #otherwise #play #voluntary

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway. ↗

— Cilla Black

#am #anyway #did #high #i

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#assembling #authority #could #done #happen

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ↗

— John Dawkins

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Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #institutions #into #passage #power

I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organised ignorance. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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