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Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an item in the news.
Richard Dawkins

Science, Stories, News

Every day I've got to be thankful that I am alive, and you never know - the cliche is, I guess, you could get hit by a bus tomorrow, so you'd better be at peace with whatever you got going at the moment.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Peace, Thankful, Tomorrow

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly.
Mario Cuomo

Smart, Judge, Law

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
Michel de Montaigne

Wise, Made, She

I could be wrong, but I think heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals. I don't know why gay marriage challenges my marriage in any way.
Elizabeth Edwards

Marriage, Gay, Why

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.
Henry A. Kissinger

Nature, End, Once

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?
Gore Vidal

Someone, Joke, Culture

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
Carl Sandburg

Away, Throw, Burn

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy, Sometimes, Dangerous

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?
Steve Martin

Different, Made, Wish

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. Wilson

God, Important, Made

Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
Busta Rhymes

Truth, Society, Negative

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'
Temple Grandin

Art, Science, End

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.
Amy Grant

Good, Best, Bad

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.
Stokely Carmichael

Time, Vote, Knew

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
Mason Cooley

Success, After, Satisfied

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
Joni Mitchell

Good, Emotional, Through

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Heraclitus

Same, Step, Twice

With our love, we could save the world.
George Harrison

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.
Jefferson Davis

War, Night, Mad

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis Presley

Hard, After, Training

I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends.
E. M. Forster

Friends, Possible, Might

I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.
John W. Gardner

Education, Today, Wonder

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
Stephen King

Saying, Old, Dying

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Him, Understand, Talk

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.
William Glasser

Place, Else, Learn

A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.
Alan Turing

Human, Believing, Deserve

I mean Black Flag happened. I was lucky. I don't think I could have put together something with one percent of that oomph on my own.
Henry Rollins

Mean, Black, Together

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.
Kesha

Funny, Care, Try

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Gore Vidal

Sorry, Road, Both

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