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I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as a group are more inclined to try to derive an ought from an is, than the population at large.

~David Deutsch

Topics: Derive Good Good Idea Group Idea Inclined Large More Ought Political Political Power Population Power Scientists Than Think Try Would

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Imagine that your life's efforts serve as a mark of God and that the only way the divine is seen, heard or expressed is through the legacy you leave behind. The yearning to make a difference is your need to express your purpose and derive meaning from your time on earth.

~Debbie Ford

Topics: Behind Derive Difference Divine Earth Efforts Express Expressed God Heard Imagine Leave Legacy Life Make Make A Difference Mark Meaning Need Only Purpose Seen Serve Through Time Way Yearning You Your

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I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

~Deborah Sampson

Topics: Both Derive Extremes Greatest Impressions Life Most Reformed Take Truths Vice Virtue Virtuous

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The powers of government exercised locally derive from a federal law authorizing government by consent in local affairs only, unless those affairs are otherwise governed by federal law.

~Dick Thornburgh

Topics: Affairs Consent Derive Federal Governed Government Law Local Locally Only Otherwise Powers Those Unless

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On the professional side, I derive great happiness and energy by solving tough business and organisational problems - even taking on tough meetings with customers.

~Dinesh Paliwal

Topics: Business Customers Derive Energy Even Great Happiness Meetings Problems Professional Side Solving Taking Tough

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One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

~Dorothy Allison

Topics: Accustomed Am Background Class Contempt Derive Strengths I Am

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The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.

~Edmund Phelps

Topics: Both Countries Derive Difficulties Elites European European Countries Many Programmes Projects Protection Run Serving Social State Vast 1970S 1980S

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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

~Edsger Dijkstra

Topics: Afraid Am Ancestors Cultural Derive Feeling Heirs Idealize Long Long Tradition Many Mathematicians Part Proud Rational Self-Esteem Themselves Thinking Tradition I Am

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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

~Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Adversity Dearly Derive Great Great Teacher Instruction Makes Often Paid Pay Price Profit Teacher Us Worth

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All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.

~Ellen G. White

Topics: Benefit Burden Cannot Derive Food Her Nature Put Stomach System Work

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