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I've been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.


Ann Beattie


#been #business #clarification #eradicate #ever

One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they think about memes is they try to extend on the analogy with genes. That's not how it works. It works by realizing the concept of a replicator.


Susan Blackmore


#analogy #biggest #biggest mistakes #concept #extend

A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.


Alice Stone Blackwell


#any #ascent #feeling #finds #guide

It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.


Jeffery Deaver


#blood #chase #crime #criminals #harder

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!


Daniel Dennett


#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?


Richard P. Feynman


#away #beauty #desert #feel #gas

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.


Tony Blair


#goes #her #his #minor #nuclear

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.


Gary Ryan Blair


#caution #course #creative #destructive #essential

Let me be clear, Mr. President, mistakes have been made in Iraq. And this operation has been far from perfect as evidenced by the fact that Zarqawi and other terrorists continue to wreak havoc throughout Iraq.


Elizabeth Dole


#clear #continue #evidenced #fact #far

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.


Josh Billings


#does #makes #mistakes #never #often






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