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The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

~Ed Markey

Topics: Attempts Bush Congress Dramatically Economy Five Fuel Increase Last Leadership Our Over President President Bush Problem Republican Resisted Standards Years

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Human thinking can skip over a great deal, leap over small misunderstandings, can contain ifs and buts in untroubled corners of the mind. But the machine has no corners. Despite all the attempts to see the computer as a brain, the machine has no foreground or background.

~Ellen Ullman

Topics: Attempts Background Brain Buts Computer Contain Corners Deal Despite Great Great Deal Human Ifs Leap Machine Mind Misunderstandings Over See Skip Small Thinking

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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

~Eric Gill

Topics: Alone Analytical Attempts Bread Descriptive Does He Hence Informative Live Man Purely Science Scientific

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My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

~Esperanza Spalding

Topics: Attempts Change Different Earliest Heard Little Little Things Lyrics Music Piano Radio Seven Sit Songs Things Were Would Write Writing

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The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth, or the motion of heavenly bodies, or the sequence of the seasons, or man's need of food and water, or the function of the heart.

~Ezra Taft Benson

Topics: Attempts Bodies Disprove Earth Food Function Gravity Heart Heavenly Longer Man Motion Need Pull Rotation Scientist Seasons Sequence True Water

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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

~Foster Friess

Topics: Achieve Attempts Behavior Culture Decide Going Legislate People Politics Precedes Productive Think Try Until Want I Think

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Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.

~Francis Crick

Topics: Attempts Bases Been Changes Composition Data Extensive Made More Mutation My Own Obtain Order Own Premature Produced Relative Reliable Study Triplets Until Various View Within

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'Batgirl' and 'Harley Quinn' are the first DC hit books in a while that aren't starring Batman personally, really. But some of the attempts to reach the female audience have been really depressing to me.

~Gail Simone

Topics: Attempts Audience Batman Been Books Depressing Female First Harley Hit Me Personally Reach Really Some While Dc

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Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

~Gary Bauer

Topics: Advice Also Attempts Consequences Conservatives Divisive Give Liberals Need Points Political Rhetoric Score Take Violence

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Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.

~Gary Johnson

Topics: Accompanied Approach Attempts Care Exceptions Freedom Given Great Laws Pain Religious Religious Freedom Sensitivity Several State

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