When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false negative was significant... view

By: John Cameron

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does... view

By: George Bernard Shaw

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.. view

By: W. H. Auden

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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager... view

By: Eugene Jarvis

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I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. I'm very, very good at writing protocols. I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team... view

By: Bram Cohen

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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place... view

By: Daniel J. Boorstin

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I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked... view

By: Sigourney Weaver

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During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art... view

By: Sol LeWitt

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Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are... view

By: Luis Gutierrez

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But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do... view

By: Michael Stipe

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I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education... view

By: William Wiley

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There's no particular relationship between spending and educational results. Most education spending is actually on salaries, and that's allocated according to political muscle... view

By: Peter Brimelow

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