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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

~Alan Dershowitz

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The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt with by municipalities in other countries - such as how to deal with a dangerous bridge or how to resolve conflicts between religious and secular bus riders - become major international issues when they occur in Israel.

~Alan Dershowitz

Topics: Become Between Bridge Bus Conflicts Countries Dangerous Deal Dealt Domestic How International Israel Issues Major Occur Other Other Countries Purely Reality Religious Resolve Riders Sad Secular Would

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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.

~Alan Dundes

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Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Become Better Brain Brain Surgery He Least Me Mean Novelist Novels Plan Put Retire Surgeon Surgery Way Would Write

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I flew fighters for the Navy in San Diego for three years, went and did my post-graduate education, and then I was a test pilot in Patuxent River, Maryland, for a few years. I was back in the fleet in the Navy when I was selected to come back here to NASA to become an astronaut.

~Alan G. Poindexter

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If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropologist?'

~Alan Greenspan

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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

~Alan Hovhaness

Topics: Become Concert Did Earn Fairly Felt Good Had Interested Living Me More Much Orchestra Pianist Piano Proficient Talent Teachers Than Wanted Way

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Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died or become immune to the disease.

~Alan Huffman

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I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

~Alan J. Heeger

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Did you hear the one about the elderly Jew on his deathbed who sent for a priest, after declaring to his astonished relatives that 'I want to convert.' Asked why he would become a Catholic, after living all his life as a Jew, he answered: 'Better one of them should die than one of us.'

~Alan King

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