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When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

~A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Topics: About Defence Fields Grand Made Make People Plans Power Sacrifices Scientific Technologies Think

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Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects into their coursework.

~Adam Cohen

Topics: Always Build Business Could Ended Fields Government Graduates Journalism Law More Other Schools Subjects Up

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As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Among Boy Chemistry Clear Fields Gave Mathematics Me Mechanics Physical Satisfaction Sciences Special Toward Were

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We must nurture creative scientists in an environment that encourages interactions and collaborations across different fields, and support research free from weighty bureaucracies.

~Ahmed Zewail

Topics: Across Collaborations Creative Different Encourages Environment Fields Free Interactions Must Nurture Research Scientists Support

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I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.

~Al Franken

Topics: Comedian Did Felt Few Fields Good Good Idea Got Group Idea Just Know Later Learned Like Only Policy Politician Pot Public Public Policy Satirist Saw Schmuck Something Support Tell Too Well Years Years Ago You

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So, if you look at what's common among some of the companies I have, including the Four Seasons, NewsCorp, George V, the Plaza, these are all irreplaceable brands in their own fields.

~Al-Waleed Bin Talal

Topics: Among Brands Common Companies Fields Four George Including Irreplaceable Look Own Seasons Some You

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At best, policy is about protecting the rights of all workers while also driving fair competition and enabling opportunity. It is about making the future work for everyone. At worst, policy tries to resist change and creates uneven playing fields that eventually hurt everyone.

~Alain Dehaze

Topics: About Also Best Change Competition Creates Driving Enabling Eventually Everyone Fair Fields Future Hurt Making Opportunity Playing Policy Protecting Resist Rights Tries While Work Workers Worst

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When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Close Develop Fields Food Gardens Grow Grow Up Help Instinct Markets Poultry Quality Up You

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One thing scientists do is to find order among a large number of facts, and one way to do that across fields as diverse as biology, geology, physics and astronomy is through classification.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Across Among Astronomy Biology Classification Diverse Facts Fields Find Geology Large Large Number Number One Thing One Way Order Physics Scientists Thing Through Way

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In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Also Amount Biology Certain Disparate Facts Families Features Fields Genera Geological Information Large Large Numbers Name Names Numbers Other Patterns Reason Reduce Science See Species Take Them Types Use

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