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Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

~Abdullah Ii Of Jordan

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One of the big breakthroughs I had as a writer was when I stopped agonising over every word.

~Alastair Reynolds

Topics: Big Breakthroughs Every Had Over Stopped Word Writer

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The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Breakthroughs Bunker Car Changing Create Does Ideas Internet Isolation Long Made Mass Mass Media Media Mentality Only Opposite People Phenomenal Poorly Social Some Still Suburbs Terms Them Understood Us

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The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.

~Anthony Fauci

Topics: Aids Breakthroughs Cause Development Discovery Doorway First Hiv Major Medications Opened Proof Provided Scientific Specific Target Tests Were

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We're always doing a lot of user studies on health and safety. We take it super seriously. But if you look back at the history of most new big technology breakthroughs, there is some element of controversy around what impact is it going to have.

~Brendan Iribe

Topics: Always Around Back Big Breakthroughs Controversy Doing Element Going Health History Impact Look Lot Most New Safety Seriously Some Studies Super Take Technology The History Of User You

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Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

~Bryce Dallas Howard

Topics: Any Breakthroughs Course Days Downs Film Kind Process Stuck Ups Ups And Downs Where You

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Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The 'smart' people don't.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Breakthroughs People Smart Smart People Wacky

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To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.

~Burt Rutan

Topics: Access Allow Breakthroughs Compared Cost Every Factor First Flight Increase Launch Lot Lower Magnitude More Need Orbit Order Part Public Safety Significant Since Solution Space System Than Think Used Will Would I Think

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What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

~Camille Paglia

Topics: American American Writers Been Breakthroughs Continuity Did Enter Forgotten Generation Influenced Intellectual Major Most North North American Older Older Generation People Professions Since Thanks Those Were Writers Young Young People 1960S

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The U.S. and Europe may have more breakthroughs in neuroscience, but you have to put that in perspective. The U.S. has 350 million people, and there are 28 countries in the European Union. Israel is third behind these countries in its neuroscience developments, but per capita, it is way ahead of everyone.

~Chaka Fattah

Topics: Behind Breakthroughs Countries Developments Europe European European Union Everyone Israel May Million Million People More Neuroscience People Per Perspective Put Third Union Way You Ahead

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