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Nobody - myself included - believes that we could ever achieve total information awareness. But the government needs to set goals and long-range objectives. Total information awareness is a good goal. ↗

— John Poindexter

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I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#dear #hold #i #lives #man

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children. ↗

— Roman Polanski

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In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#canada #discussion #late #major #nuclear

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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